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GNETALES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gnetales mean?
• GNETALES (noun)
The noun GNETALES has 1 sense:
1. chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
Familiarity information: GNETALES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gnetales; order Gnetales
Hypernyms ("Gnetales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Gnetales"):
family Gnetaceae; Gnetaceae (plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum)
Ephedraceae; family Ephedraceae (ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)
family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae (in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)
Holonyms ("Gnetales" is a member of...):
class Gnetopsida; Gnetophyta; Gnetophytina; Gnetopsida; subdivision Gnetophytina (gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta))
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