cooksonioid

English

Etymology

From scientific Latin Cooksonia (genus name) +‎ -oid.

Noun

cooksonioid (plural cooksonioids)

1. (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.