Cordaites
noun
Cor·dai·tes
ˌkȯ(r)dāˈītˌēz,
kȯ(r)ˈdīt-
: the type genus of Cordaitaceae comprising tall Paleozoic forest trees that superficially resembled the modern screw pines but structurally were intermediate in some respects between the cycadophytes and the more advanced coniferophytes
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from August K.J.Corda †1849 Bohemian botanist + Latin -ites -ite
- deteriorable
- deteriorate
- deteriorated
- deteriorated into
- deteriorates
- deteriorating
- deterioration
- deteriorationist
- deteriorations
- deteriorative
- deteriorator
- deteriorism
- determa
- determent
- determents
- determinabilities
- determinability
- determinable
- determinableness
- determinablenesses
- determinably
- determinacies
- determinacy
- determinant
- determinantal