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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of widely disseminated fossil ferns, occurring in large numbers in the coal-measures of Europe and America, and found also in the Middle Devonian of New Brunswick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Paleon.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb
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Among these there occur _Pecopteris Whitbiensis_, _Pecopteris obtusifolia_, _Pecopteris insignis_, -- all well marked English species; with several others.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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