GNETOPHYTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gnetophyta mean? 

• GNETOPHYTA (noun)
  The noun GNETOPHYTA has 1 sense:

1. 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)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GNETOPHYTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Gnetopsida; Gnetophyta; Gnetophytina; Gnetopsida; subdivision Gnetophytina

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Gnetophyta"):

Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)

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

class Gymnospermae; division Gymnospermophyta; Gymnospermae; Gymnospermophyta (plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida))