CORDAITACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cordaitaceae mean? 

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

1. chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDAITACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cordaitaceae; family Cordaitaceae

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

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cordaitaceae"):

Cordaites; genus Cordaites (tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers)

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

Cordaitales; order Cordaitales (extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian period; probably extinct since the Mesozoic era)