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Definition of Lepidodendrales
1. Noun. Fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Lycopodiate, Class Lycopsida, Lycopodiate, Lycopsida
Member holonyms: Family Lepidodendraceae, Lepidodendraceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepidodendrales
Literary usage of Lepidodendrales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Although herbaceous remains are known the vast majority of the lepidodendrales
were arborescent and some of them reached a height of 100 feet or more. ..."
2. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
"as pointing to the origin of Isoetes (by reduction) from the lepidodendrales.
One of the most cogent objections to this theory is the great amount of ..."
3. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"... (Order lepidodendrales) which were abundant in the Paleozoic period, and which
disappeared in the Mesozoic. We have fragmentary fossils of the ..."
4. Pure Sociology: A Treatise on the Origin and Spontaneous Development of Society by Lester Frank Ward (1903)
"I cannot even summarize these facts in this chapter, and will confine myself to
giving a few of the most striking examples. The case of the lepidodendrales ..."
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