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PSILOPHYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psilophyte mean? 

PSILOPHYTE (noun)
  The noun PSILOPHYTE has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plantplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PSILOPHYTE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

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

order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)


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