GENUS VITTARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vittaria mean? 

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

1. tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS VITTARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vittaria; Vittaria

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Vittaria"):

grass fern; ribbon fern; Vittaria lineata (epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America)

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

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