GYMNOSPERM FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gymnosperm family mean? 

• GYMNOSPERM FAMILY (noun)
  The noun GYMNOSPERM FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a family of gymnosperms

  Familiarity information: GYMNOSPERM FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GYMNOSPERM FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of gymnosperms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gymnosperm family" is a kind of...):

plant family (a family of plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gymnosperm family"):

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae (cypresses and junipers and many cedars)

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

family Taxaceae; Taxaceae; yew family (sometimes classified as member of order Taxales)

family Sciadopityaceae; Sciadopityaceae (family comprising a single genus that until recently was considered part of Taxodiaceae)

family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family (gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves)

family Phyllocladaceae; Phyllocladaceae (a family of Phyllocladaceae)

Cephalotaxaceae; family Cephalotaxaceae; plum-yew family (a family of Cephalotaxaceae)

araucaria family; Araucariaceae; family Araucariaceae (tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae)

redwood family; subfamily Taxodiaceae; Taxodiaceae (coniferous trees; traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems)

family Pinaceae; Pinaceae; pine family (a family of Pinaceae)

Cordaitaceae; family Cordaitaceae (chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus)

Bennettitaceae; family Bennettitaceae (a family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous)

family Zamiaceae; zamia family; Zamiaceae (a family of cycads often included in the family Cycadaceae: zamias)

cycad family; Cycadaceae; family Cycadaceae (ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids)

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

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

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)

Holonyms ("gymnosperm family" is a member of...):

class Gymnospermae; division Gymnospermophyta; Gymnospermae; Gymnospermophyta (plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida))