鳞木属

Any of several North American or eastern Asian evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Thuja, having flattened branchlets with opposite, scalelike leaves and small cones.

侧柏，金钟柏一种崖柏属的北美或亚洲东部常绿树木或灌木，具有对称鳞状叶的扁平小树枝及小球果，因其可作装饰和作木材而被种植

The extinct trees of the genus Lepidodendron were once distributed widely and contributed largely to the coal seams of the Carboniferous.

已灭绝的鳞木属植物曾经分布广泛，它是石炭纪煤层的重要组成部分。

Lepidophloides and lepidodendralean leaf cushion genera, such as Lepidodendron, Lepidophloios, Sigillaria and Cathaysiodendron revealed that L. lepidophloides possesses mixed features of all these genera and it can not be assigned into any of them without doubt.

将鳞皮鳞木与已知几个鳞木类植物叶座属，如鳞木属、鳞皮木属、封印木属和华夏木属进行了对比，认为鳞皮鳞木具有这几个属的混合特征，将其归入上述任何一属似乎都不太妥当。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。