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GENUS ACROSTICHUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
Synonyms:
Acrostichum; genus Acrostichum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Acrostichum" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Acrostichum"):
Acrostichum aureum; golden fern; leather fern (stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides)
Holonyms ("genus Acrostichum" is a member of...):
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)
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