ASPLENIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asplenium mean? 

• ASPLENIUM (noun)
  The noun ASPLENIUM has 1 sense:

1. in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae

  Familiarity information: ASPLENIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPLENIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asplenium; genus Asplenium

Hypernyms ("Asplenium" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Asplenium"):

spleenwort (any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium)

Asplenium nidus; bird's nest fern (tropical Old World or Australian epiphytic fern frequently forming tufts in tree crotches)

Asplenium scolopendrium; hart's-tongue; hart's-tongue fern; Phyllitis scolopendrium (Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds)

Asplenium ceterach; Ceterach officinarum; scale fern; scaly fern (small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds)

Holonyms ("Asplenium" is a member of...):

Aspleniaceae; family Aspleniaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium, Pleurosorus, Schaffneria)