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CYCADALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cycadales mean? 

CYCADALES (noun)
  The noun CYCADALES has 1 sense:

1. primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical formsplay

  Familiarity information: CYCADALES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CYCADALES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cycadales; order Cycadales

Hypernyms ("Cycadales" is a kind of...):

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Cycadales"):

cycad family; Cycadaceae; family Cycadaceae (ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids)

family Zamiaceae; zamia family; Zamiaceae (a family of cycads often included in the family Cycadaceae: zamias)

Holonyms ("Cycadales" is a member of...):

class Cycadopsida; Cycadophyta; Cycadophytina; Cycadopsida; subdivision Cycadophyta; subdivision Cycadophytina (palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta))


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