Lep`i*do*den"dron (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. , a scale + tree.] Paleon.

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.

 

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