gnetales (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Gnetales*:
NOUN	plant	Gnetales, order Gnetales	chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants

English > *Gnetales*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms.
Synonym	order Gnetales
Member of	Gnetopsida, class Gnetopsida, Gnetophytina, subdivision Gnetophytina, Gnetophyta	gymnospermous flowering plants
Members	Ephedraceae, family Ephedraceae	ephedras
	Gnetaceae, family Gnetaceae	plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit
	Welwitschiaceae, family Welwitschiaceae	In some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
Broader	plant order	The order of plants
Spanish	gnetales
Catalan	gnetales

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