cycadeoid

Any of the extinct plants of the order Bennettitales.

Noun

  1. Any of the extinct plants of the order Bennettitales.
    • Like the cycads many cycadeoids have trunklike stems that are unbranched or sparsely branched and clothed in spirally arranged persistent leaf bases. - 1993, Wilson Nichols Stewart, Gar W. Rothwell, Paleobotany and the...

    Synonyms: bennettitalean

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Forms

cycadeoids