GYMNOSPERM GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gymnosperm genus mean? 

• GYMNOSPERM GENUS (noun)
  The noun GYMNOSPERM GENUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of gymnosperms

  Familiarity information: GYMNOSPERM GENUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GYMNOSPERM GENUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of gymnosperms

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gymnosperm genus" is a kind of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gymnosperm genus"):

Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium (sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia)

genus Sequoia (redwoods; until recently considered a genus of a separate family Taxodiaceae)

genus Taxodium; Taxodium (bald cypress; swamp cypress)

genus Tetraclinis; Tetraclinis (sandarac tree)

genus Thuja; Thuja (red cedar)

genus Thujopsis; Thujopsis (one species; has close similarity to genus Thuja)

genus Keteleeria (a genus of keteleeria)

genus Araucaria (a genus of the araucaria family)

Agathis; genus Agathis (kauri pine)

Cephalotaxus; genus Cephalotaxus (the genus of Cephalotaxus (see plum-yews))

genus Torreya; Torreya (nutmeg-yews)

genus Phyllocladus; Phyllocladus (celery pine)

genus Podocarpus; Podocarpus (evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae)

Afrocarpus; genus Afrocarpus (dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus)

Dacrycarpus; genus Dacrycarpus (evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines)

Dacrydium; genus Dacrydium (Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs)

genus Metasequoia (genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae)

genus Halocarpus; Halocarpus (dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium)

genus Lagarostrobus; Lagarostrobus (genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium)

genus Lepidothamnus; Lepidothamnus (small usually shrubby conifers)

genus Microstrobos; Microstrobos (2 species of small evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)

genus Nageia; Nageia (small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea)

genus Parasitaxus; Parasitaxus (one species: parasite yew)

genus Prumnopitys; Prumnopitys (mostly dioecious evergreen conifers; leaves are softer than in Podocarpus)

genus Retrophyllum; Retrophyllum (small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America)

genus Saxe-gothea; genus Saxegothea; Saxe-gothea; Saxegothea (one species: Prince Albert's yew)

genus Sundacarpus; Sundacarpus (one species)

genus Sciadopitys; Sciadopitys (type and sole genus of Sciadopityaceae; Japanese umbrella pines)

genus Taxus; Taxus (yews)

Austrotaxus; genus Austrotaxus (a gymnosperm genus having one species: New Caledonian yew)

genus Pseudotaxus; Pseudotaxus (one species)

genus Ginkgo (sole surviving genus of the Ginkgoaceae)

genus Pseudolarix; Pseudolarix (one species: golden larch)

genus Gnetum (type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones)

Catha; genus Catha (a genus of African evergreen shrubs characterized by thick leaves and white flowers)

genus Ephedra (type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions)

genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia (type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae)

Cycas; genus Cycas (type genus of Cycadaceae: genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves)

genus Zamia (genus of small evergreen tropical and subtropical American cycads)

genus Ceratozamia (small genus of Mexican cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae)

genus Dioon (small genus of arborescent cycads of Mexico and Central America; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae)

genus Encephalartos (genus of arborescent African cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae)

genus Macrozamia (genus of large evergreen Australian cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae)

Bennettitis; genus Bennettitis (type of the Bennettitales)

genus Lyginopteris; Lyginopteris (genus of fossil seed ferns of the Carboniferous)

Cordaites; genus Cordaites (tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers)

genus Pinus; Pinus (type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines)

genus Larix; Larix (larches)

Abies; genus Abies (true firs)

Cedrus; genus Cedrus (true cedars)

genus Picea; Picea (a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce))

genus Tsuga; Tsuga (hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce)

genus Pseudotsuga; Pseudotsuga (douglas fir; closely related to genera Larix and Cathaya)

genus Cathaya (one species; related to Pseudotsuga and Larix)

Cupressus; genus Cupressus (type genus of Cupressaceae)

Athrotaxis; genus Athrotaxis (a genus of gymnosperm)

Austrocedrus; genus Austrocedrus (one species; formerly included in genus Libocedrus)

Callitris; genus Callitris (evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs: cypress pines)

Calocedrus; genus Calocedrus (tall evergreens of western North America and eastern Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus)

Chamaecyparis; genus Chamaecyparis (a genus of Chamaecyparis)

Cryptomeria; genus Cryptomeria (Japanese cedar; sugi)

genus Juniperus; Juniperus (junipers)

genus Libocedrus; Libocedrus (cypresses that resemble cedars)

Holonyms ("gymnosperm genus" 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))