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CHEILANTHES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
Synonyms:
Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cheilanthes" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Cheilanthes"):
lip fern; lipfern (any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions)
Cheilanthes gracillima; lace fern (small tufted fern of northwestern America)
Holonyms ("Cheilanthes" is a member of...):
family Pteridaceae; Pteridaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided)
