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WOODWARDIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns
Synonyms:
genus Woodwardia; Woodwardia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Woodwardia" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Woodwardia"):
chain fern (a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows)
Holonyms ("Woodwardia" is a member of...):
Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia)