OPHIOGLOSSUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ophioglossum mean? 

• OPHIOGLOSSUM (noun)
  The noun OPHIOGLOSSUM has 1 sense:

1. the type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae

  Familiarity information: OPHIOGLOSSUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPHIOGLOSSUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ophioglossum; Ophioglossum

Hypernyms ("Ophioglossum" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Ophioglossum"):

adder's tongue; adder's tongue fern (ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue)

Holonyms ("Ophioglossum" is a member of...):

family Ophioglossaceae; Ophioglossaceae (a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution)