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GENUS BLECHNUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns

Synonyms:

Blechnum; genus Blechnum

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Blechnum" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Blechnum"):

hard fern (any of several ferns of the genus Blechnum)

Holonyms ("genus Blechnum" is a member of...):

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)

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