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GENUS PHLEBODIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Phlebodium mean?
• GENUS PHLEBODIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS PHLEBODIUM has 1 sense:
1. chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori
Familiarity information: GENUS PHLEBODIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium
Hypernyms ("genus Phlebodium" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Phlebodium"):
golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern (tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium)
Holonyms ("genus Phlebodium" 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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