FAMILY VITTARIACEAE

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Meaning:

One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria

Synonyms:

family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("family Vittariaceae" is a kind of...):

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "family Vittariaceae"):

genus Vittaria; Vittaria (tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds)

Holonyms ("family Vittariaceae" is a member of...):

Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)