SUBDIVISION PINOPHYTINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subdivision Pinophytina mean? 

• SUBDIVISION PINOPHYTINA (noun)
  The noun SUBDIVISION PINOPHYTINA has 1 sense:

1. most conifers: in some systems classified as a class (Pinopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Pinophytina); used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta

  Familiarity information: SUBDIVISION PINOPHYTINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBDIVISION PINOPHYTINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Most conifers: in some systems classified as a class (Pinopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Pinophytina); used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Pinopsida; Pinophytina; Pinopsida; subdivision Pinophytina

Hypernyms ("subdivision Pinophytina" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Holonyms ("subdivision Pinophytina" is a member of...):

class Coniferopsida; Coniferophyta; Coniferophytina; Coniferopsida; subdivision Coniferophytina (cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian))