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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LEPIDODENDRON

Lep `i *do *den "dron, n. Etym: [NL. , fr. Gr. (Paleon.)

 

Defn: A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

 

Duden Dictionary

Lepidodendron

Le pi do den d ron , Le pi do den dron Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Lepidod e ndron |das Lepidodendron; Genitiv: des Lepidodendrons, Plural: die Lepidodendren griechisch-neulateinisch (ausgestorbener, besonders im Karbon häufiger ) Baum; Schuppenbaum