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FAMILY DICKSONIACEAE

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Meaning:

Tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans

Synonyms:

Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("family Dicksoniaceae" is a kind of...):

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "family Dicksoniaceae"):

Dicksonia; genus Dicksonia (tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae)

Cibotium; genus Cibotium (in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae: ornamental tree ferns with coarse gracefully drooping fronds)

Culcita; genus Culcita (includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia: terrestrial ferns resembling bracken; tropical America; Malaysia to Australia and Polynesia; southwestern Europe and Atlantic islands)

genus Thyrsopteris (one species)

Holonyms ("family Dicksoniaceae" is a member of...):

Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)

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