DORYOPTERIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Doryopteris mean? 

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

1. small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DORYOPTERIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Doryopteris; genus Doryopteris

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Doryopteris"):

Doryopteris pedata; hand fern (tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds)

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

family Pteridaceae; Pteridaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided)