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Answer for the clue "Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb ", 10 letters:
pecopteris

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Pecopteris \Pe*cop"te*ris\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? to comb + ? a kind of fern.] (Paleon.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

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Pecopteris is a very common form genus of leaves . Most Pecopteris leaves and fronds are associated with the marattialean tree fern Psaronius . However, Pecopteris -type foliage also is borne on several filicalean ferns, and at least one seed fern . Pecopteris ...

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n. Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb