Gnetales
plural noun
Gne·ta·les
-ā(ˌ)lēz
: an order of chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody gymnospermous plants that have two cotyledons, opposite leaves, vessels in the wood, and compound male and female strobili, consist of a single family (Gnetaceae), and are practically unknown as fossils but are sometimes considered on structural grounds to be near or on the ancestral line of the angiosperms
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Gnetum + -ales