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GENUS PECOPTERIS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Pecopteris" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pecopteris"):
pecopteris (Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb)
Holonyms ("genus Pecopteris" 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)