cooksonioidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cooksonioid (複数形 cooksonioids)

1. (paleobiology) A plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia.
   • 2000, A. Jonathan Shaw, ‎Bernard Goffinet, Bryophyte Biology, p. 142:

     Whether bryophytes actually arose from such a cooksonioid ancestor (see Miller 1982) needs to be addressed further.

   • 2018, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian, 25 May:

     A previous study had suggested a minimum size limit below which cooksonioid plants could not have functioned as photosynthetically independent plants.