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  1. Lepidodendron
    Lepidodendron (also known as the scale tree) was a giant club moss (a tree-like plant) whose long trunk had bark with a diamond-shaped pattern (the scars of old, dead branches that fell off). This ancient lycopod was over 130 ft (40 m) tall; the trunk was over 6 ft (1.8 m) in diameter. Lepidodendron...
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  2. Lepidodendron
    Lep`i·do·den'dron (-drŏn) noun [ New Latin , from Greek lepi`s -i`dos , a scale + de`ndron tree.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked...
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  3. lepidodendron
    <paleontology> 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. ... Origin: NL, fr. Gr, a scale + tree. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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  4. Lepidodendron
    • (n.) 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.
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  5. Lepidodendron
    one of the most commonly encountered genera of extinct treelike club mosses, order Lepidodendrales, class (or subdivision) Lycopsida. Some of its ... [3 related articles]
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  6. lepidodendron
    lepidodendron 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.
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  7. Lepidodendron
    Lepidodendron (also known as the "Scale tree") is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the lycopsids (club mosses). It was part of the coal forest flora. They sometimes reached heights of over {convert|30|m|ft|-1}, and the trunks were often over {convert...
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  8. Lepidodendron
    <i>(lep"idōden'drun)</i> Lepidodendron (lep"idōden'drun) and Sigillaria (sijilâr'ēu) , two principal genera of an extinct group of primitive vascular trees. They dominated the forests of the early Carboniferous period until the ferns gained asce...
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