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    DIVISION PTERIDOPHYTA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophytaplay

    Synonyms:

    division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("division Pteridophyta" is a kind of...):

    division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

    Meronyms (members of "division Pteridophyta"):

    genus Pecopteris (genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns)

    nonflowering plant; pteridophyte (plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores)

    fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

    fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

    class Filicinae; class Filicopsida; Filicinae; Filicopsida (ferns)

    class Psilopsida; class Psilotatae; Psilopsida; Psilotatae (whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs)

    order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)

    class Equisetatae; class Sphenopsida; Equisetatae; Sphenopsida (horsetails and related forms)

    class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)

    Holonyms ("division Pteridophyta" is a member of...):

    kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)

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