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FAMILY POLYPODIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae)
Synonyms:
family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Polypodiaceae" is a kind of...):
fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "family Polypodiaceae"):
genus Phyllitis; genus Scolopendrium; Phyllitis (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae (in some classification systems included in genus Asplenium))
Ceterach; genus Ceterach (small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus)
Cyclophorus; genus Cyclophorus (tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia)
genus Solanopteris; Solanopteris (tropical American epiphytic ferns having rhizomes with tubers and roots as well as scales)
genus Pyrrosia; Pyrrosia (epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial ferns of tropical Old World)
genus Platycerium; Platycerium (often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns)
genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)
genus Microsorium; Microsorium (tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia)
genus Microgramma; Microgramma (epiphytic ferns of tropical America and Africa)
genus Lecanopteris (epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea)
Drynaria; genus Drynaria (large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia)
Drymoglossum; genus Drymoglossum (epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea)
Campyloneurum; genus Campyloneurum (epiphytic ferns of tropical America)
Aglaomorpha; genus Aglaomorpha (epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia)
genus Polypodium; Polypodium (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori)
Holonyms ("family Polypodiaceae" is a member of...):
Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)
