SCHIZAEA PUSILLA

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Meaning:

Rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts

Synonyms:

curly grass; curly grass fern; Schizaea pusilla

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Schizaea pusilla" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("Schizaea pusilla" is a member of...):

genus Schizaea; Schizaea (type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics; small leptosporangiate ferns: curly grass fern)