Class Lycopsida (Noun)
Meaning
Club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The phylum Lycopophyta consisted of the extinct or living members of the class Lycopsida that generated plants like Selaginella, in a scientific analysis of ancient forms of life.
- The study of class Lycopsida consists of club mosses and related forms, so we looked closely at a stalk of a ground Lycopod which provided valuable information.
- When compared to various living plants of the world, one thing remained constant about the structure of ancient members of the class Lycopsida that it looked like tall arbor.
- By studying the fossil records we came up with a detailed description of plant evolution of the extinct members of the class Lycopsida that lived during early days.
- Another common application of the class Lycopsida in a study of ancient ground dwelling plants life happened to be a link between the flora of yesterday and today.