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GENUS PITYROGRAMMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
Synonyms:
genus Pityrogramma; Pityrogramma
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Pityrogramma" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pityrogramma"):
Pityrogramma argentea; silver fern (fern of southern tropical Africa having fronds with white undersides)
Pityrogramma calomelanos; silver fern (tropical American fern having fronds with white undersides)
golden fern; Pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava (tropical American fern having fronds with light golden undersides)
gold fern; Pityrogramma chrysophylla (fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides)
Holonyms ("genus Pityrogramma" is a member of...):
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)
