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PTERIDOPHYTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores
Synonyms:
nonflowering plant; pteridophyte
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pteridophyte" is a kind of...):
tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pteridophyte"):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
fern ally (pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida)
Holonyms ("pteridophyte" is a member of...):
division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)
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