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Definition of Pecopteris
1. Noun. Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb.
Definition of Pecopteris
1. n. An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
Medical Definition of Pecopteris
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pecopteris
Literary usage of Pecopteris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Fossils of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States Named in by J. Peter Lesley, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey (1889)
"... (false pecopteris) decurrens ; Coal Flora, 1880, page 265. Tne specimen is
unique; and lihas no distinct relation to any other of the Coal Measures. ..."
2. Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the by Alexander Winchell (1870)
"... and thus the original limits of the great Carboniferous jungle have been very
much restricted. pecopteris. Frond of an ancient Tree-fern. ..."
3. The Wonders of Geology: Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena by Gideon Algernon Mantell, Thomas Rupert Jones (1858)
"The pecopteris (Lign. 167, fi,g. 2, and 168, a genus containing upwards of forty
British species, is of frequent occurrence in the coal-shales, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1885)
"Mr R. Kidston on pecopteris in Circinate Vernation. Hugh Miller has himself
suggested the identity on a label affixed to the specimen, although it is not so ..."
5. Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex: Containing a General View of the by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1827)
"... it generally occurs in confused masses, presenting the appearance of fig. 6.
PL 3. pecopteris reticulata. PI. 3. fig. 5, PL 3.* fig. 3. Geolog. Trans. ..."
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