Cordaites

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cordaites \Cordaites\ n.
     a genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling
     modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in
     some ways between cycads and conifers.
  
     Syn: genus {Cordaites}.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Cordaites
       n : tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw
           pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between
           cycads and conifers [syn: {genus Cordaites}]