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GNETOPHYTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta)
Synonyms:
class Gnetopsida; Gnetophyta; Gnetophytina; Gnetopsida; subdivision Gnetophytina
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Gnetophyta" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Gnetophyta"):
Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)
Holonyms ("Gnetophyta" 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))
