PELLAEA ROTUNDIFOLIA

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Meaning:

Fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets

Synonyms:

button fern; Pellaea rotundifolia

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Nouns denoting plants

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

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("Pellaea rotundifolia" is a member of...):

genus Pellaea; Pellaea (genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

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