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FAMILY DICKSONIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans
Synonyms:
Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Dicksoniaceae" is a kind of...):
fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "family Dicksoniaceae"):
Dicksonia; genus Dicksonia (tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae)
Cibotium; genus Cibotium (in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae: ornamental tree ferns with coarse gracefully drooping fronds)
Culcita; genus Culcita (includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia: terrestrial ferns resembling bracken; tropical America; Malaysia to Australia and Polynesia; southwestern Europe and Atlantic islands)
genus Thyrsopteris (one species)
Holonyms ("family Dicksoniaceae" is a member of...):
Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)