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    FILICALES

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    True (leptosporangiate) fernsplay

    Synonyms:

    Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    plant order (the order of plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Filicales"):

    family Hymenophyllaceae; Hymenophyllaceae (terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns)

    family Osmundaceae; Osmundaceae (large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas)

    Azollaceae; family Azollaceae (used in some classifications for the genus Azolla)

    family Gleicheniaceae; Gleicheniaceae (a family of ferns belonging to order Filicales)

    family Parkeriaceae; Parkeriaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae)

    family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae (ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae))

    family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria)

    Aspleniaceae; family Aspleniaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium, Pleurosorus, Schaffneria)

    Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia)

    Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae (tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans)

    family Oleandraceae; Oleandraceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

    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)

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

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

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