FAMILY POLYPODIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Polypodiaceae mean? 

• FAMILY POLYPODIACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY POLYPODIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY POLYPODIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae

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

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "family Polypodiaceae"):

genus Microgramma; Microgramma (epiphytic ferns of tropical America and Africa)

genus Phyllitis; genus Scolopendrium; Phyllitis (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae (in some classification systems included in genus Asplenium))

Ceterach; genus Ceterach (small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus)

Cyclophorus; genus Cyclophorus (tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia)

genus Solanopteris; Solanopteris (tropical American epiphytic ferns having rhizomes with tubers and roots as well as scales)

genus Pyrrosia; Pyrrosia (epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial ferns of tropical Old World)

genus Platycerium; Platycerium (often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns)

genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)

genus Microsorium; Microsorium (tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia)

genus Lecanopteris (epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea)

Drynaria; genus Drynaria (large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia)

Drymoglossum; genus Drymoglossum (epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea)

Campyloneurum; genus Campyloneurum (epiphytic ferns of tropical America)

Aglaomorpha; genus Aglaomorpha (epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia)

genus Polypodium; Polypodium (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori)

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

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