FERN FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fern family mean? 

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

1. families of ferns and fern allies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERN FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Families of ferns and fern allies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fern family"):

family Psilophytaceae; Psilophytaceae (Paleozoic plants)

Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

family Lomariopsidaceae; Lomariopsidaceae (small family of usually scandent ferns)

family Lophosoriaceae; Lophosoriaceae (very small family of tree ferns)

family Loxomataceae; Loxomataceae (very small family of New Zealand ferns)

family Oleandraceae; Oleandraceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

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)

family Marattiaceae; Marattiaceae (constituting the order Marattiales: chiefly tropical eusporangiate ferns with gigantic fronds)

family Psilotaceae; Psilotaceae (small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves)

Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae (tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans)

family Rhyniaceae; Rhyniaceae (primitive plants of the Paleozoic)

Equisetaceae; family Equisetaceae; horsetail family (sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies)

family Lepidodendraceae; Lepidodendraceae (fossil plants characterized by conspicuous spirally arranged leaf scars on the trunk)

clubmoss family; family Lycopodiaceae; Lycopodiaceae (a family of ferns belonging to the order Lycopodiales)

family Selaginellaceae; Selaginellaceae (lesser club mosses: terrestrial chiefly tropical plants resembling mosses)

family Isoetaceae; Isoetaceae; quillwort family (quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes)

Cryptogrammataceae; family Cryptogrammataceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

family Thelypteridaceae; Thelypteridaceae (genera Thelypteris, Phegopteris, and others)

family Parkeriaceae; Parkeriaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae)

family Hymenophyllaceae; Hymenophyllaceae (terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns)

family Osmundaceae; Osmundaceae (large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas)

family Schizaeaceae; Schizaeaceae (small family of mainly tropical ferns)

family Marsileaceae; Marsileaceae (clover ferns)

family Salviniaceae; Salviniaceae (water ferns)

Azollaceae; family Azollaceae (used in some classifications for the genus Azolla)

family Ophioglossaceae; Ophioglossaceae (a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution)

family Gleicheniaceae; Gleicheniaceae (a family of ferns belonging to order Filicales)

family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae (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))

Adiantaceae; family Adiantaceae (used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae))

family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria)

Aspleniaceae; family Aspleniaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium, Pleurosorus, Schaffneria)

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)

Cyatheaceae; family Cyatheaceae (tropical tree ferns)

Davalliaceae; family Davalliaceae; Dennstaedtiaceae; family Dennstaedtiaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

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

division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)