English noun: order Gnetales | |||
1. | order Gnetales (plant) chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms | ||
Synonyms | Gnetales | ||
Broader (hypernym) | plant order | ||
Member holonym | Ephedraceae, family Ephedraceae, family Gnetaceae, family Welwitschiaceae, Gnetaceae, Welwitschiaceae | ||
Member meronym | class Gnetopsida, Gnetophyta, Gnetophytina, Gnetopsida, subdivision Gnetophytina | ||