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ONYCHIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae
Synonyms:
genus Onychium; Onychium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Onychium" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Holonyms ("Onychium" 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)