Gnetales gnetaceous • Gnetum · · · Info · Definitions · Characters · · Gnetales · · Text Latin · · Script 8 · · Length Definitions · · · (noun) chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms. Synonyms: order Gnetales. · · Noun Definition 1 Characters · · G latin capital letter g U+0047 a latin small letter a U+0061 e latin small letter e U+0065 l latin small letter l U+006C n latin small letter n U+006E s latin small letter s U+0073 t latin small letter t U+0074