DEPARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Deparia mean? 

• DEPARIA (noun)
  The noun DEPARIA has 1 sense:

1. classification used for 5 species of terrestrial ferns usually placed in other genera

  Familiarity information: DEPARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Classification used for 5 species of terrestrial ferns usually placed in other genera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Deparia; genus Deparia

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Deparia"):

Athyrium thelypteroides; Deparia acrostichoides; silvery spleenwort (fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores)

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

Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)