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DEPARIA ACROSTICHOIDES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Deparia acrostichoides mean?
• DEPARIA ACROSTICHOIDES (noun)
The noun DEPARIA ACROSTICHOIDES has 1 sense:
1. fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores
Familiarity information: DEPARIA ACROSTICHOIDES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEPARIA ACROSTICHOIDES (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Athyrium thelypteroides; Deparia acrostichoides; silvery spleenwort
Hypernyms ("Deparia acrostichoides" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("Deparia acrostichoides" is a member of...):
Deparia; genus Deparia (classification used for 5 species of terrestrial ferns usually placed in other genera)
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