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cooksonioid

cooksonioid noun: a plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia.

Noun

cooksonioid (plural cooksonioids)

  1. A plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia.
    • Whether bryophytes actually arose from such a cooksonioid ancestor (see Miller 1982) needs to be addressed further.2000, A. Jonathan Shaw, Bernard Goffinet, Bryophyte Biology, page 142
    • A previous study had suggested a minimum size limit below which cooksonioid plants could not have functioned as photosynthetically independent plants.2018 May 25, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian

Forms of cooksonioid

pluralcooksonioids

Origin of cooksonioid

From scientific Latin Cooksonia (genus name) + -oid.

Questions about cooksonioid

What does cooksonioid mean?
Cooksonioid means a plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia.
What part of speech is cooksonioid?
Cooksonioid is a noun.
What is the plural of cooksonioid?
The plural of cooksonioid is cooksonioids.

Words near cooksonioid in the dictionary

  1. cookshed
  2. cooksheds
  3. cookshop
  4. cookshops
  5. Cookson
  6. cooksonioid
  7. cooksonioids
  8. cookstove
  9. cookstoves
  10. Cookstown
  11. cookt

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