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PELLAEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceaeplay

Synonyms:

genus Pellaea; Pellaea

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pellaea" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Pellaea"):

cliff-brake; cliff brake; rock brake (any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions)

coffee fern; Pellaea andromedifolia (evergreen fern of California and Baja California)

button fern; Pellaea rotundifolia (fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets)

Holonyms ("Pellaea" 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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