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FAMILY BLECHNACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Blechnaceae mean? 

FAMILY BLECHNACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY BLECHNACEAE has 1 sense:

1. 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 Woodwardiaplay

  Familiarity information: FAMILY BLECHNACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY BLECHNACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae

Hypernyms ("family Blechnaceae" is a kind of...):

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "family Blechnaceae"):

Blechnum; genus Blechnum (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns)

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

genus Sadleria; Sadleria (low tree ferns with large fronds; in rain forests and on lava flows of Hawaiian Islands)

genus Stenochlaena; Stenochlaena (large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa; Asia; Australasia)

genus Woodwardia; Woodwardia (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns)

Holonyms ("family Blechnaceae" is a member of...):

Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)


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