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SCHIZAEACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small family of mainly tropical ferns

Synonyms:

family Schizaeaceae; Schizaeaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Schizaeaceae" is a kind of...):

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Schizaeaceae"):

genus Schizaea; Schizaea (type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics; small leptosporangiate ferns: curly grass fern)

Anemia; genus Anemia (genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds; chiefly of tropical America)

genus Lygodium; Lygodium (chiefly tropical climbing ferns)

genus Mohria; Mohria (African terrestrial ferns)

Holonyms ("Schizaeaceae" is a member of...):

class Filicinae; class Filicopsida; Filicinae; Filicopsida (ferns)

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