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CYSTOPTERIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae

Synonyms:

Cystopteris; genus Cystopteris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cystopteris" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Cystopteris"):

bladder fern (any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori)

Holonyms ("Cystopteris" is a member of...):

Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

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