gymnosperm genus
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1. a genus of gymnosperms (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | genus, |
| definition | : | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | genus gnetum, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | catha, genus catha, |
| definition | : | a genus of African evergreen shrubs characterized by thick leaves and white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus ephedra, |
| definition | : | type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cycas, genus cycas, |
| definition | : | type genus of Cycadaceae: genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus zamia, |
| definition | : | genus of small evergreen tropical and subtropical American cycads (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus ceratozamia, |
| definition | : | small genus of Mexican cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus dioon, |
| definition | : | small genus of arborescent cycads of Mexico and Central America; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus encephalartos, |
| definition | : | genus of arborescent African cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus macrozamia, |
| definition | : | genus of large evergreen Australian cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cordaites, genus cordaites, |
| definition | : | tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus pinus, pinus, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus picea, picea, |
| definition | : | a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce) (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus tsuga, tsuga, |
| definition | : | hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus cathaya, |
| definition | : | one species; related to Pseudotsuga and Larix (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | callitris, genus callitris, |
| definition | : | evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs: cypress pines (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | calocedrus, genus calocedrus, |
| definition | : | tall evergreens of western North America and eastern Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus metasequoia, |
| definition | : | genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus sequoia, |
| definition | : | redwoods; until recently considered a genus of a separate family Taxodiaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus araucaria, |
| definition | : | a genus of the araucaria family (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus podocarpus, podocarpus, |
| definition | : | evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | afrocarpus, genus afrocarpus, |
| definition | : | dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dacrycarpus, genus dacrycarpus, |
| definition | : | evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | falcatifolium, genus falcatifolium, |
| definition | : | sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus halocarpus, halocarpus, |
| definition | : | dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus nageia, nageia, |
| definition | : | small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus retrophyllum, retrophyllum, |
| definition | : | small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genus ginkgo, |
| definition | : | sole surviving genus of the Ginkgoaceae (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | class gymnospermae, division gymnospermophyta, gymnospermae, gymnospermophyta, |
| definition | : | plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida) (noun.plant) |
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