DOODIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Doodia mean? 

• DOODIA (noun)
  The noun DOODIA has 2 senses:

1. any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae

2. in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia

  Familiarity information: DOODIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOODIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

doodia; rasp fern

Hypernyms ("doodia" 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 ("doodia" is a member of...):

Doodia; genus Doodia (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Doodia; genus Doodia

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Doodia"):

doodia; rasp fern (any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae)

Holonyms ("Doodia" 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)