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SELAGINELLACEAE

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Meaning:

Lesser club mosses: terrestrial chiefly tropical plants resembling mosses

Synonyms:

family Selaginellaceae; Selaginellaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Selaginellaceae"):

genus Selaginella; Selaginella (type and sole genus of the Selaginellaceae; evergreen moss-like plants: spike moss and little club moss)

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

order Selaginellales; Selaginellales (in some classifications included in Lycopodiales)

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