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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.