English noun: Gnetales | |||
| 1. | Gnetales (plant) chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms | ||
| Synonyms | order 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 | ||