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    GENUS PELLAEA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Pellaea; Pellaea

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Pellaea"):

    cliff-brake; cliff brake; rock brake (any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions)

    coffee fern; Pellaea andromedifolia (evergreen fern of California and Baja California)

    button fern; Pellaea rotundifolia (fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets)

    Holonyms ("genus Pellaea" 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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