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GENUS ADIANTUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Adiantum mean?
• GENUS ADIANTUM (noun)
The noun GENUS ADIANTUM has 1 sense:
1. cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS ADIANTUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Adiantum; genus Adiantum
Hypernyms ("genus Adiantum" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Adiantum"):
maidenhair; maidenhair fern (any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds)
Holonyms ("genus Adiantum" 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)
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