genus ophioglossum

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1. the type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	adder's tongue, adder's tongue fern,
definition	:	ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family ophioglossaceae, ophioglossaceae,
definition	:	a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution (noun.plant)