Akademik

Cycadofilicales

noun

fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns

• Syn: ↑order Cycadofilicales, ↑Lyginopteridales, ↑order Lyginopteridales

• Hypernyms: ↑plant order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Pteridospermopsida, ↑class Pteridospermopsida

• Member Meronyms: ↑Lyginopteris, ↑genus Lyginopteris

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\\|sīkə(ˌ)dō, |sik-+\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from cycado- (from Cycadales) + Filicales

: an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants first known from the Devonian that had foliage like that of ferns, definite seeds borne on modified leaves rather than in strobili or cones, and secondary wood like the higher gymnosperms but primary wood resembling that of ferns — see seed fern

Useful english dictionary. 2012.