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GENUS DORYOPTERIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae

Synonyms:

Doryopteris; genus Doryopteris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Doryopteris"):

Doryopteris pedata; hand fern (tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds)

Holonyms ("genus Doryopteris" 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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