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GENUS ADIANTUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
Synonyms:
Adiantum; genus Adiantum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Adiantum" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Adiantum"):
maidenhair; maidenhair fern (any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds)
Holonyms ("genus Adiantum" 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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