gnetales
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1. chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | plant order, |
| definition | : | the order of plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | family gnetaceae, gnetaceae, |
| definition | : | plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | ephedraceae, family ephedraceae, |
| definition | : | ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | family welwitschiaceae, welwitschiaceae, |
| definition | : | in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | class gnetopsida, gnetophyta, gnetophytina, gnetopsida, subdivision gnetophytina, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.plant) |
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