cooksonioid

English

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

cooksonioid (plural cooksonioids)

(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.