family polypodiaceae
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1. 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)
| hypernym | : | fern family, |
| definition | : | families of ferns and fern allies (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus polypodium, polypodium, |
| definition | : | a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | drynaria, genus drynaria, |
| definition | : | large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus lecanopteris, |
| definition | : | epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus microsorium, microsorium, |
| definition | : | tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus phlebodium, phlebodium, |
| definition | : | chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus pyrrosia, pyrrosia, |
| definition | : | epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial ferns of tropical Old World (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus solanopteris, solanopteris, |
| definition | : | tropical American epiphytic ferns having rhizomes with tubers and roots as well as scales (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cyclophorus, genus cyclophorus, |
| definition | : | tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | ceterach, genus ceterach, |
| definition | : | small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus (noun.plant) |
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