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    GENUS PTERETIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Matteuccia; genus Pteretis; Matteuccia; Pteretis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Pteretis"):

    fiddlehead; Matteuccia struthiopteris; Onoclea struthiopteris; ostrich fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; shuttlecock fern (tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes)

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

    Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

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