woodwardia

English Thesaurus

1. in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	chain fern,
definition	:	a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	blechnaceae, family blechnaceae,
definition	:	one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia (noun.plant)