GINKGOALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ginkgoales mean? 

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

1. coextensive with the family Ginkgoaceae: plants that first appeared in the Permian and now represented by a single surviving species; often included in Coniferales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GINKGOALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the family Ginkgoaceae: plants that first appeared in the Permian and now represented by a single surviving species; often included in Coniferales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ginkgoales; order Ginkgoales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ginkgoales"):

family Ginkgoaceae; ginkgo family; Ginkgoaceae (constituting the order Ginkgoales; includes the genus Ginkgo and extinct forms)

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

class Ginkgophytina; class Ginkgopsida; Ginkgophytina; Ginkgopsida; subdivision Ginkgophyta; subdivision Ginkgophytina (ginkgos: in some systems classified as a class and in others as a subdivision; used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta)