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GENUS DAVALLIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old World tropical fern; in some classification systems placed directly in family Polypodiaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Davallia" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Davallia"):
davallia (any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes)
hare's-foot fern (either of two ferns of the genus Davallia having a soft grey hairy rootstock)
Canary Island hare's foot fern; Davallia canariensis (fern of the Canary Islands and Madeira)
Australian hare's foot; Davallia pyxidata (a hare's-foot fern of the genus Davallia)
ball fern; Davalia bullata; Davalia bullata mariesii; Davallia Mariesii; squirrel's-foot fern (feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia)
Holonyms ("genus Davallia" is a member of...):
Davalliaceae; family Davalliaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
