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TECTARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests
Synonyms:
genus Tectaria; Tectaria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Tectaria" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Tectaria"):
button fern; Tectaria cicutaria (Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils)
Indian button fern; Tectaria macrodonta (fern of tropical Asia having round buttonlike bulbils)
Holonyms ("Tectaria" is a member of...):
Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
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