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ORDER GNETALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
Synonyms:
Gnetales; order Gnetales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Gnetales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "order Gnetales"):
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)
Ephedraceae; family Ephedraceae (ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)
family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae (in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)
Holonyms ("order Gnetales" is a member of...):
class Gnetopsida; Gnetophyta; Gnetophytina; Gnetopsida; subdivision Gnetophytina (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))
