cooksonioid
English
Etymology
From scientific Latin Cooksonia (genus name) + -oid.
Noun
cooksonioid (plural cooksonioids)
- (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.
- 2000, A. Jonathan Shaw, Bernard Goffinet, Bryophyte Biology, p. 142: