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LYCOPSIDA

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Meaning:

Club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta

Synonyms:

class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Lycopsida"):

class Lycopodineae; Lycopodineae (alternative designation for the class Lycopsida)

club-moss; club moss; lycopod (primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles)

Lepidodendrales; order Lepidodendrales (fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous)

Lycopodiales; order Lycopodiales (lower vascular plants coextensive with the family Lycopodiaceae; in some classifications includes the Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae)

order Selaginellales; Selaginellales (in some classifications included in Lycopodiales)

Isoetales; order Isoetales (aquatic or marsh-growing fern allies; known to have existed since the Cenozoic; sometimes included in Lycopodiales)

Holonyms ("Lycopsida" 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)

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