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WOODSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any fern of the genus Woodsia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("woodsia" 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodsia"):
fragrant woodsia; oblong woodsia; rusty woodsia; Woodsia ilvensis (a common rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate regions having rusty-brown stipes and lanceolate pinnate fronds)
Alpine woodsia; flower-cup fern; northern woodsia; Woodsia alpina (slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori)
smooth woodsia; Woodsia glabella (rock-inhabiting fern of Arctic and subarctic Europe to eastern Asia)
Holonyms ("woodsia" is a member of...):
genus Woodsia (genus of small to medium-sized usually rock-inhabiting ferns of temperate and cold regions; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)
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