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FAMILY PSILOTACEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves
Synonyms:
family Psilotaceae; Psilotaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Psilotaceae" is a kind of...):
fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "family Psilotaceae"):
genus Psilotum; Psilotum (type genus of the Psilotaceae)
Holonyms ("family 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)