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    CYSTOPTERIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Cystopteris; genus Cystopteris

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

    Meronyms (members of "Cystopteris"):

    bladder fern (any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori)

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

    Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

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