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    BLADDER FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the soriplay

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bladder fern" is a kind of...):

    fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bladder fern"):

    brittle bladder fern; brittle fern; Cystopteris fragilis; fragile fern (delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems)

    Cystopteris montana; mountain bladder fern (fern of rocky mountainous areas of hemisphere)

    berry fern; bulblet bladder fern; bulblet fern; Cystopteris bulbifera (North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets)

    Holonyms ("bladder fern" is a member of...):

    Cystopteris; genus Cystopteris (chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae)

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