Definition of Ophioglossales

1. Noun. Coextensive with the family Ophioglossaceae.

Exact synonyms: Order Ophioglossales
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Member holonyms: Family Ophioglossaceae, Ophioglossaceae
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophioglossales

Open Closed Principle
Open Game
Open Games
Open Sound Control
Open University
Operation Desert Storm
Ophelia
Opheodrys
Opheodrys aestivus
Opheodrys vernalis
Ophidiidae
Ophiodon
Ophiodon elongatus
Ophiodontidae
Ophioglossaceae
Ophioglossales (current term)
Ophioglossum
Ophioglossum pendulum
Ophiophagus hannan
Ophir
Ophisaurus
Ophiuchus
Ophryoscolecidae
Ophrys
Ophrys apifera
Ophrys insectifera
Ophrys muscifera
Ophrys sphegodes
Opiliones
Opisthobranchia

Literary usage of Ophioglossales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"A careful consideration of the evidence leads to the conclusion that they are best in place as an independent phylum of the Ophioglossales, ..."

2. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"The Ophioglossales, the "adder-tongue" ferns, include three genera (of which two are practically cosmopolitan) and embrace numerous species, being sometimes ..."

3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"cular structure, the Ophioglossales are more advanced than the majority of pteridophytes. On the whole, the association is evidently with the Filicales of ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The class as a whole shows relationships with the Ophioglossales, ... class of ferns comprise two known orders, the Ophioglossales and ..."

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