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WOODWARDIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns

Synonyms:

genus Woodwardia; Woodwardia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Woodwardia"):

chain fern (a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows)

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

Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia)

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