Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common fossil plant of the Carboniferous coal-measures, supposed, in some cases at least, to have furnished an important constituent of the coal itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.
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Examples
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The lepidodendron tree died and them gave birth to me
I Am Coal 1985
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Get the passive student once into palæozoology, and he takes your other hard names -- your ichthyodorulite, trogontherium, lepidodendron, and bothrodendron -- for granted, contemplating them, indeed, with a kind of religious awe or devotional reverence.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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{97} The specimens found in the muschelkalk are allied to the crocodile and lizard tribes of the present day, but in the latter instance are upon a scale of magnitude as much superior to present forms as the lepidodendron of the coal era was superior to the dwarf club-mosses of our time.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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In no other age did the world ever witness such a flora: the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth, -- a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians, of the reed-like calamite, the tall tree-fern, the sculptured sigillaria, and the hirsute lepidodendron.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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In the Middle Old Red Sandstone there also occurs a small fern, with some trace of a larger; and one of its best preserved vegetable organisms is a lepidodendron, -- an extinct ally of the Lycopodiums; while in the upper beds of the system, especially as developed in the south of Ireland, the noble fern known as _Cyclopteris
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Devonian basin of Sabero in Spain, its characteristic organisms are, a lepidodendron (_L.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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We find it associated with the remains of a terrestrial plant allied to lepidodendron, and which in size and general appearance not a little resembles one of our commonest club mosses, -- _Lycopodium clavatum_. [
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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