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Lepidodendron

noun
Lep·​i·​do·​den·​dron

Definition of Lepidodendron

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

History and Etymology for Lepidodendron

New Latin, from lepid- + -dendron

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