ONYCHIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Onychium mean? 

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

1. small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONYCHIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Onychium; Onychium

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

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

family Pteridaceae; Pteridaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided)