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