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    ADIANTUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Adiantum; genus Adiantum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

    Meronyms (members of "Adiantum"):

    maidenhair; maidenhair fern (any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds)

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

    family Pteridaceae; Pteridaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided)

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