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FERN FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Families of ferns and fern allies
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fern family" is a kind of...):
family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fern family"):
Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae (tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans)
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)
family Lomariopsidaceae; Lomariopsidaceae (small family of usually scandent ferns)
family Lophosoriaceae; Lophosoriaceae (very small family of tree ferns)
family Loxomataceae; Loxomataceae (very small family of New Zealand ferns)
family Oleandraceae; Oleandraceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
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)
family Marattiaceae; Marattiaceae (constituting the order Marattiales: chiefly tropical eusporangiate ferns with gigantic fronds)
family Psilotaceae; Psilotaceae (small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves)
family Psilophytaceae; Psilophytaceae (Paleozoic plants)
family Rhyniaceae; Rhyniaceae (primitive plants of the Paleozoic)
Equisetaceae; family Equisetaceae; horsetail family (sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies)
family Lepidodendraceae; Lepidodendraceae (fossil plants characterized by conspicuous spirally arranged leaf scars on the trunk)
clubmoss family; family Lycopodiaceae; Lycopodiaceae (a family of ferns belonging to the order Lycopodiales)
family Selaginellaceae; Selaginellaceae (lesser club mosses: terrestrial chiefly tropical plants resembling mosses)
family Isoetaceae; Isoetaceae; quillwort family (quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes)
Cryptogrammataceae; family Cryptogrammataceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
family Thelypteridaceae; Thelypteridaceae (genera Thelypteris, Phegopteris, and others)
family Hymenophyllaceae; Hymenophyllaceae (terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns)
family Osmundaceae; Osmundaceae (large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas)
family Schizaeaceae; Schizaeaceae (small family of mainly tropical ferns)
family Marsileaceae; Marsileaceae (clover ferns)
family Salviniaceae; Salviniaceae (water ferns)
Azollaceae; family Azollaceae (used in some classifications for the genus Azolla)
family Ophioglossaceae; Ophioglossaceae (a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution)
family Gleicheniaceae; Gleicheniaceae (a family of ferns belonging to order Filicales)
family Parkeriaceae; Parkeriaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae)
family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae (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))
Adiantaceae; family Adiantaceae (used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae))
family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria)
Aspleniaceae; family Aspleniaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium, Pleurosorus, Schaffneria)
Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia)
Cyatheaceae; family Cyatheaceae (tropical tree ferns)
Davalliaceae; family Davalliaceae; Dennstaedtiaceae; family Dennstaedtiaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
Holonyms ("fern family" is a member of...):
division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)
