polypodium

English Thesaurus

1. a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fern genus,
definition	:	genera of ferns and fern allies (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	polypody,
definition	:	any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family polypodiaceae, polypodiaceae,
definition	:	ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae) (noun.plant)