GNETALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gnetales mean? 

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

1. chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GNETALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gnetales; order Gnetales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Gnetales"):

family Gnetaceae; Gnetaceae (plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum)

Ephedraceae; family Ephedraceae (ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)

family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae (in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)

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

class Gnetopsida; Gnetophyta; Gnetophytina; Gnetopsida; subdivision Gnetophytina (gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta))