cooksonioid
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scientific Latin Cooksonia (genus name) + -oid.
Noun
[edit]cooksonioid (plural cooksonioids)
- (paleobiology) A plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia.
- 2000, A. Jonathan Shaw, Bernard Goffinet, Bryophyte Biology, page 142:
- Whether bryophytes actually arose from such a cooksonioid ancestor (see Miller 1982) needs to be addressed further.
- 2018 May 25, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian[1]:
- A previous study had suggested a minimum size limit below which cooksonioid plants could not have functioned as photosynthetically independent plants.