EQUISETATAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Equisetatae mean? 

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

1. horsetails and related forms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUISETATAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Horsetails and related forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Equisetatae; class Sphenopsida; Equisetatae; Sphenopsida

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Equisetatae"):

Equisetales; order Equisetales (lower tracheophytes in existence since the Devonian)

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

division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)