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from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of gymnospermous plants containing the family Gnetaceæ only (which see).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
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