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VITTARIA

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Meaning:

Tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds

Synonyms:

genus Vittaria; Vittaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Vittaria"):

grass fern; ribbon fern; Vittaria lineata (epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America)

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

family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria)

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