Lepidodendron

noun

Lep·​i·​do·​den·​dron

1

: a genus (the type of the family Lepidodendraceae) of fossil trees having closely set slender or subulate leaves and resembling modern club mosses in their fructification see lepidostrobus

2

lepidodendron plural lepidodendrons : any tree of the genus Lepidodendron

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from lepid- + -dendron

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