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Definition of Psilophyton
1. Noun. Any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psilophyton
Literary usage of Psilophyton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"Another wing indicates the existence of a gigantic Ephemera, with a Pig.
350.— psilophyton ... psilophyton ..."
2. Catalogue of the Palæozoic Plants in the Department of Geology and by Robert Kidston (1886)
"Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, submitted to me for
examination some specimens of psilophyton from Perthshire. ..."
3. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada by Geological Survey of Canada, John William Dawson (1871)
"The coal is shining and laminated, and both its roof and floor consist of laminated
bituminous shale with fragments of psilophyton. It has no true under-day ..."
4. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada by Geological Survey of Canada, John William Dawson (1871)
"The coal is shining and laminated, and both its roof and floor consist of laminated
bituminous shale with fragments of psilophyton. It has no true under-day ..."
5. The Geological History of Plants by John William Dawson (1888)
"THE BRIAN OR DEVONIAN FORESTS. side of the bay, though we find there beds, probably
on very nearly the same horizon, holding psilophyton in situ. ..."
6. The Earth in Past Ages by Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick (1888)
"psilophyton. ures still more beautiful and curious. Along the shallows near the
shores of the sea grew great gardens of stone- lilies. ..."
7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"The alga; in question did not precede psilophyton but were contemporaneous with
it, and their association may be explained by the co-existence of submerged ..."
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