GENUS PECOPTERIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pecopteris mean? 

• GENUS PECOPTERIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS PECOPTERIS has 1 sense:

1. genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PECOPTERIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns

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Nouns denoting plants

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pecopteris"):

pecopteris (Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb)

Holonyms ("genus Pecopteris" 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)