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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 Adiantaceae
Synonyms:
genus Pellaea; Pellaea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pellaea" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("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)
