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DAVALLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does davallia mean? 

DAVALLIA (noun)
  The noun DAVALLIA has 1 sense:

1. any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DAVALLIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("davallia" 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 "davallia"):

hare's-foot fern (either of two ferns of the genus Davallia having a soft grey hairy rootstock)

ball fern; Davalia bullata; Davalia bullata mariesii; Davallia Mariesii; squirrel's-foot fern (feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia)

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

genus Davallia (Old World tropical fern; in some classification systems placed directly in family Polypodiaceae)


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