Meanings
nouncooksonioid (plural cooksonioids)
plural cooksonioids
- biologyA plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia.
Whether bryophytes actually arose from such a cooksonioid ancestor (see Miller 1982) needs to be addressed further.
2000, A. Jonathan Shaw, Bernard Goffinet, Bryophyte Biology, page 1421 more example
A previous study had suggested a minimum size limit below which cooksonioid plants could not have functioned as photosynthetically independent plants.
2018 May 25, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian
Origin
From scientific Latin Cooksonia (genus name) + -oid.
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