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    DICKSONIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegansplay

    Synonyms:

    Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

    Meronyms (members of "Dicksoniaceae"):

    Dicksonia; genus Dicksonia (tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae)

    Cibotium; genus Cibotium (in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae: ornamental tree ferns with coarse gracefully drooping fronds)

    Culcita; genus Culcita (includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia: terrestrial ferns resembling bracken; tropical America; Malaysia to Australia and Polynesia; southwestern Europe and Atlantic islands)

    genus Thyrsopteris (one species)

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

    Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)

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