Cordaites

Cordaites
Cordaites Cordaites n. a genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers.

Syn: genus {Cordaites}. [WordNet 1.5]


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