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GENUS DOODIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia
Synonyms:
Doodia; genus Doodia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Doodia" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus Doodia"):
doodia; rasp fern (any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae)
Holonyms ("genus Doodia" 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)