PHLEBODIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phlebodium mean? 

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

1. chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHLEBODIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Phlebodium"):

golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern (tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium)

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

family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae (ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae))