TAXOPSIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Taxopsida mean? 

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

1. yews: in some systems classified as a class (Taxopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Taxophytina) used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAXOPSIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yews: in some systems classified as a class (Taxopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Taxophytina) used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Taxopsida; subdivision Taxophytina; Taxophytina; Taxopsida

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

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

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

class Coniferopsida; Coniferophyta; Coniferophytina; Coniferopsida; subdivision Coniferophytina (cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian))