PSILOPHYTALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Psilophytales mean? 

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

1. Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSILOPHYTALES (noun)

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Meaning:

Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Psilophytales; Psilophytales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Psilophytales"):

psilophyte (any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant)

family Psilophytaceae; Psilophytaceae (Paleozoic plants)

family Rhyniaceae; Rhyniaceae (primitive plants of the Paleozoic)

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

division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)