Akademik

Gnetales
noun
chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
Syn: ↑order Gnetales
Hypernyms: ↑plant order
Member Holonyms: ↑Gnetopsida, ↑class Gnetopsida, ↑Gnetophytina, ↑subdivision Gnetophytina, ↑Gnetophyta
Member Meronyms: ↑Gnetaceae, ↑family Gnetaceae, ↑Ephedraceae, ↑family Ephedraceae, ↑Welwitschiaceae, ↑family Welwitschiaceae

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\\-ā(ˌ)lēz\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Gnetum + -ales
: an order of chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody gymnospermous plants that have two cotyledons, opposite leaves, vessels in the wood, and compound male and female strobili, consist of a single family (Gnetaceae), and are practically unknown as fossils but are sometimes considered on structural grounds to be near or on the ancestral line of the angiosperms

Useful english dictionary. 2012.