RHYNIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhyniaceae mean? 

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

1. primitive plants of the Paleozoic

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

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• RHYNIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive plants of the Paleozoic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Rhyniaceae; Rhyniaceae

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

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Rhyniaceae"):

genus Rhynia; Rhynia (type genus of the Rhyniaceae; small leafless dichotomously branching fossil plants with terminal sporangia and smooth branching rhizomes)

genus Horneophyton; Horneophyton (Devonian fossil plant considered one of the earliest forms of vascular land plants; similar to genus Rhynia but smaller)

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

order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)