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FILICALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
True (leptosporangiate) ferns
Synonyms:
Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Filicales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Filicales"):
family Hymenophyllaceae; Hymenophyllaceae (terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns)
family Osmundaceae; Osmundaceae (large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas)
Azollaceae; family Azollaceae (used in some classifications for the genus Azolla)
family Gleicheniaceae; Gleicheniaceae (a family of ferns belonging to order Filicales)
family Parkeriaceae; Parkeriaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae)
family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae (ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae))
family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria)
Aspleniaceae; family Aspleniaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium, Pleurosorus, Schaffneria)
Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia)
Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae (tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans)
family Oleandraceae; Oleandraceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
family Pteridaceae; Pteridaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided)
Holonyms ("Filicales" is a member of...):
class Filicinae; class Filicopsida; Filicinae; Filicopsida (ferns)
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