1. plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum; [syn: Gnetaceae, family Gnetaceae]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
family Gnetaceae
n 1: plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged
fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra
and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum [syn: Gnetaceae,
family Gnetaceae]