单词 |
Bennettites |
释义 |
Bennettites Palæobot.|ˌbɛnəˈtaɪtiːz| [mod.L., f. surname of John Joseph Bennett (1801–1876), English botanist, + -ites (see -ite1).] A genus of gymnospermous fossil plants having seeds borne on long stalks.
1871W. Carruthers in Trans. Linnean Soc. XXVI. 695 To this genus I have given the name Bennettites, after my distinguished colleague. 1911Encycl. Brit. XX. 546/1 The best preserved specimens of the true Bennettites type..are from the Lower Greensand and Wealden of England, and from Upper Mesozoic strata in North America, Italy and France. Ibid. 547/1 It is clear that Bennettites differed in many essential respects from the few modern survivors of the Cycadophyta. |

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