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    GENUS CHEILANTHES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes

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    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Cheilanthes"):

    lip fern; lipfern (any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions)

    Cheilanthes gracillima; lace fern (small tufted fern of northwestern America)

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

    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)

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