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Definition of Cycadofilicales

1. Noun. Fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycadofilicales

Literary usage of Cycadofilicales

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

1. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"ORDER A, cycadofilicales A Paleozoic group of plants with fern-like leaves (Fig. 150). They were often fern-like in habit, though including likewise vines ..."

2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"(1) cycadofilicales Discovery.—The discovery of the existence of this most primitive group of seed plants, known only in the Paleozoic and chiefly in the ..."

3. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"Some of the cycadofilicales had long and slender stems, ... The cycadofilicales gave rise to the Cycadales so characteristic of the first half of Mesozoic ..."

4. Fundamentals of Botany by Charles Stuart Gager (1916)
"The origin of Angiosperms from Cycadophyta (pro- angiosperms). 2. The origin of Cycadophyta from cycadofilicales. 3. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... although some students, following so eminent an authority as Zeiller, still regard the cycadofilicales as merely a specialized group of ferns. ..."

6. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"The predecessors of the cycad line were ferns, and from the ferns there emerged those primitive seed plants, the cycadofilicales, which looked like ferns ..."

7. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
"cycadofilicales (cycad-like ferns). 1. Filicales (true ferns). 149. Relation of the Above Groups.—It must not be inferred that the above groups were derived ..."

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