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GENUS LECANOPTERIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lecanopteris mean? 

GENUS LECANOPTERIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS LECANOPTERIS has 1 sense:

1. epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guineaplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS LECANOPTERIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS LECANOPTERIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Lecanopteris" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lecanopteris"):

lecanopteris (any of several bizarre ferns of the genus Lecanopteris having swollen hollow rhizomes that provide homes for symbiotic ants)

Holonyms ("genus Lecanopteris" is a member of...):

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))


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