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PSILOTACEAE

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Meaning:

Small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves

Synonyms:

family Psilotaceae; Psilotaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Psilotaceae" is a kind of...):

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Psilotaceae"):

genus Psilotum; Psilotum (type genus of the Psilotaceae)

Holonyms ("Psilotaceae" is a member of...):

order Psilotales; Psilotales (lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots)

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