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Webster 1913 Edition
Lepidodendron
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Lepˊi-do-den′dron
(-drŏn)
, Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
λεπίσ
-ίδος
, a scale + δένδρον
tree.] (Paleon.)
A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.
Definition 2024
Lepidodendron
Lepidodendron
Translingual
Proper noun
Lepidodendron n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Lepidendraceae – the scale trees, now extinct.