bennettitales

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1. fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	plant order,
definition	:	the order of plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bennettitaceae, family bennettitaceae,
definition	:	a family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	class cycadopsida, cycadophyta, cycadophytina, cycadopsida, subdivision cycadophyta, subdivision cycadophytina,
definition	:	palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta) (noun.plant)