coniferophyta

1. 1.

   cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian)

   SynonymsConiferopsidaclass ConiferopsidaConiferophytinasubdivision Coniferophytina

   Broaderclass

   Part ofGymnospermae

Other forms of coniferophyta

plural

coniferophytas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coniferophyta

What does coniferophyta mean?

coniferophyta means "cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian)".

How many syllables are in coniferophyta?

coniferophyta has 6 syllables: co-ni-fe-ro-phy-ta. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for coniferophyta?

Close synonyms include Coniferopsida, class Coniferopsida, Coniferophytina, subdivision Coniferophytina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coniferophyta a common word?

coniferophyta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.