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Definition of Pteridophyta
1. Noun. Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta.
Generic synonyms: Division
Group relationships: Kingdom Plantae, Plant Kingdom, Plantae
Member holonyms: Genus Pecopteris, Nonflowering Plant, Pteridophyte, Fern Family, Fern Genus, Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida, Class Psilopsida, Class Psilotatae, Psilopsida, Psilotatae, Order Psilophytales, Psilophytales, Class Equisetatae, Class Sphenopsida, Equisetatae, Sphenopsida, Class Lycopodiate, Class Lycopsida, Lycopodiate, Lycopsida
Definition of Pteridophyta
1. n. pl. A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pteridophyta
Literary usage of Pteridophyta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Therefore the gametophyte of the Pteridophyta only will be described here ...
Similar features recur in the Pteridophyta. The formation of the organs of ..."
2. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"Pteridophyta. Until recently the spermatozoid of the Pteridophyta was generally
conceded by many of the most competent investigators to consist merely of a ..."
3. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"Pteridophyta. Until recently the spermatozoid of the Pteridophyta was generally
conceded by many of the most competent investigators to consist merely of a ..."
4. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting, William Henry Lang (1921)
"DIVISION II SPERMATOPHYTA The Transition from the Pteridophyta to the
Spermatophyta (1).— The Pteridophyta are characterised by the type of alternation of ..."
5. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"... in these orders of the Pteridophyta, there is a noticeable increase in the
differentiation of the spore before its separation from the parent plant; ..."
6. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta growing without Cultivation in Northeastern
North America. PREFACE. The following list of the Pteridophyta and ..."
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