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GENUS BLECHNUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns
Synonyms:
Blechnum; genus Blechnum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Blechnum" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Blechnum"):
hard fern (any of several ferns of the genus Blechnum)
Holonyms ("genus Blechnum" is a member of...):
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)
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