Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of fossil plants, widely distributed, very characteristic of the Carboniferous epoch, and especially of the coal-measures of that age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers
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