noun
chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
• Syn: ↑Gnetales
• Hypernyms: ↑plant order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gnetopsida, ↑class Gnetopsida, ↑Gnetophytina, ↑subdivision Gnetophytina, ↑Gnetophyta
• Member Meronyms: ↑Gnetaceae, ↑family Gnetaceae, ↑Ephedraceae, ↑family Ephedraceae, ↑Welwitschiaceae, ↑family Welwitschiaceae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.