order cycadales

1. Primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms (synset 111620590)
   is a type of: plant order - the order of plants
   member holonym:

   • cycad family, cycadaceae, family cycadaceae - ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids
   • family zamiaceae, zamia family, zamiaceae - a family of cycads often included in the family Cycadaceae: zamias
   belongs to: class cycadopsida, cycadophyta, cycadophytina, cycadopsida, subdivision cycadophyta, subdivision cycadophytina - palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta)
   same as: cycadales

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