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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The generic name of a fossil plant belonging to the cycads, occurring in numerous localities in the Triassic and Jurassic of Europe. The genus Dioonites, as instituted by Bornemann, consists largely of species previously assigned by authors to Pterophyllum.

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