Caytonia

noun
Cay·​to·​nia | \ kāˈtōnēə, -nyə\

Definition of Caytonia

: a genus (the type of the family Caytoniaceae and the order Caytoniales) of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Mesozoic era having seeds enclosed in a carpellike case that suggests their ancestry to the angiosperms

History and Etymology for Caytonia

New Latin, from Cayton, England + New Latin -ia

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