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FILICOPSIDA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ferns
Synonyms:
class Filicinae; class Filicopsida; Filicinae; Filicopsida
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Filicopsida" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Filicopsida"):
family Thelypteridaceae; Thelypteridaceae (genera Thelypteris, Phegopteris, and others)
Cryptogrammataceae; family Cryptogrammataceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
Marattiales; order Marattiales (lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae)
family Loxomataceae; Loxomataceae (very small family of New Zealand ferns)
family Lophosoriaceae; Lophosoriaceae (very small family of tree ferns)
family Lomariopsidaceae; Lomariopsidaceae (small family of usually scandent ferns)
Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
Dennstaedtiaceae; family Dennstaedtiaceae; Davalliaceae; family Davalliaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
Cyatheaceae; family Cyatheaceae (tropical tree ferns)
Adiantaceae; family Adiantaceae (used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae))
Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)
Ophioglossales; order Ophioglossales (coextensive with the family Ophioglossaceae)
family Salviniaceae; Salviniaceae (water ferns)
family Marsileaceae; Marsileaceae (clover ferns)
family Schizaeaceae; Schizaeaceae (small family of mainly tropical ferns)
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("Filicopsida" is a member of...):
division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)
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