1. containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
Familiarity information: DIVISION PTERIDOPHYTA used as a noun is very rare.
Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)
class Psilopsida; class Psilotatae; Psilopsida; Psilotatae (whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs)
class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)
Holonyms ("division Pteridophyta" is a member of...):
"Don't shut the barn door after the horse is gone." (English proverb)
"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper." (Maimonides)
"Covering one's own ears while stealing a bell." (Chinese proverb)
"A thin cat and a fat woman are the shame of a household." (Corsican proverb)
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