PITYROGRAMMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pityrogramma mean? 

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

1. terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITYROGRAMMA (noun)

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Meaning:

Terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pityrogramma; Pityrogramma

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Pityrogramma"):

Pityrogramma argentea; silver fern (fern of southern tropical Africa having fronds with white undersides)

Pityrogramma calomelanos; silver fern (tropical American fern having fronds with white undersides)

golden fern; Pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava (tropical American fern having fronds with light golden undersides)

gold fern; Pityrogramma chrysophylla (fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides)

Holonyms ("Pityrogramma" 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)