subdivision coniferophytina

Questions about subdivision coniferophytina

What does subdivision coniferophytina mean?

subdivision coniferophytina 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)".

What is another word for subdivision coniferophytina?

Close synonyms include Coniferopsida, class Coniferopsida, Coniferophytina, Coniferophyta. 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 subdivision coniferophytina a common word?

subdivision coniferophytina 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.