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PLATYCERIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns
Synonyms:
genus Platycerium; Platycerium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Platycerium" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Platycerium"):
staghorn fern (any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag)
common staghorn fern; elkhorn fern; Platycerium alcicorne; Platycerium bifurcatum (commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia)
Holonyms ("Platycerium" is a member of...):
family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae (ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae))
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