FERN ALLY

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fern ally" is a kind of...):

nonflowering plant; pteridophyte (plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fern ally"):

whisk fern (chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal appearance resembling whisk brooms; lacking roots)

horsetail (perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America)

club-moss; club moss; lycopod (primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles)

quillwort (any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia)

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