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Definition of Bennettitales

1. Noun. Fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bennettitales

Literary usage of Bennettitales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"In two important respects, however, the Bennettitales differ from the ... The course of the leaf traces in Bennettitales differs decidedly from that in ..."

2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"(2) Bennettitales General character.—The members of this extinct group were very conspicuous during the Mesozoic, and they have been called fossil cycads. ..."

3. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"The remains of Bennettitales have been found in abundance in the explored regions of both hemispheres, and they have been described under a variety of ..."

4. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"As it is, the female cone of those Bennettitales which have been described ... As far as the living cycads are concerned, the Bennettitales of the later ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"I was, perhaps, the first to call attention to the inconsistency of applying the term Cycadales to the foliage of such plants and the term Bennettitales to ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"But as the Cycadales and Bennettitales are already recognized classes, a group that embraces them both can not be a class. It may be called a superclass. ..."

7. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"... Rosellinia in Indiana, by GB RAMSEY; Some large botanical problems, by JC ARTHUR.—JMC A new genus of Bennettitales.—THOMAS" has described a new genus of ..."

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