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PSILOTALES

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Meaning:

Lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots

Synonyms:

order Psilotales; Psilotales

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Nouns denoting plants

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Psilotales"):

family Psilotaceae; Psilotaceae (small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves)

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

class Psilopsida; class Psilotatae; Psilopsida; Psilotatae (whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs)

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