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GENUS DOODIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia

Synonyms:

Doodia; genus Doodia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Doodia" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Doodia"):

doodia; rasp fern (any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae)

Holonyms ("genus Doodia" is a member of...):

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)

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