Definition of Lepidodendrales

1. Noun. Fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepidodendrales

Lepcha
Lepechinia
Lepechinia calycina
Lepehne
Lepehne-Pickworth stain
Lepidium
Lepidium alpina
Lepidium sativum
Lepidobotryaceae
Lepidochelys
Lepidochelys kempii
Lepidochelys olivacea
Lepidocybium
Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendrales (current term)
Lepidothamnus
Lepidothamnus fonkii
Lepidothamnus laxifolius
Lepiota americana
Lepiota cepaestipes
Lepiota clypeolaria
Lepiota morgani
Lepiota naucina
Lepiota procera
Lepiota rhacodes
Lepiota rubrotincta
Lepiotaceae
Lepisma saccharina
Lepismatidae

Literary usage of Lepidodendrales

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Although herbaceous remains are known the vast majority of the Lepidodendrales were arborescent and some of them reached a height of 100 feet or more. ..."

2. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
"as pointing to the origin of Isoetes (by reduction) from the Lepidodendrales. One of the most cogent objections to this theory is the great amount of ..."

3. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"... (Order Lepidodendrales) which were abundant in the Paleozoic period, and which disappeared in the Mesozoic. We have fragmentary fossils of the ..."

4. Pure Sociology: A Treatise on the Origin and Spontaneous Development of Society by Lester Frank Ward (1903)
"I cannot even summarize these facts in this chapter, and will confine myself to giving a few of the most striking examples. The case of the Lepidodendrales ..."

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