POLYPODIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Polypodiales mean? 

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

1. true (leptosporangiate) ferns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYPODIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

True (leptosporangiate) ferns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Polypodiales"):

family Hymenophyllaceae; Hymenophyllaceae (terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns)

family Osmundaceae; Osmundaceae (large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas)

Azollaceae; family Azollaceae (used in some classifications for the genus Azolla)

family Gleicheniaceae; Gleicheniaceae (a family of ferns belonging to order Filicales)

family Parkeriaceae; Parkeriaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae)

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))

family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria)

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

Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia)

Dicksoniaceae; family Dicksoniaceae (tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans)

family Oleandraceae; Oleandraceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

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)

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

class Filicinae; class Filicopsida; Filicinae; Filicopsida (ferns)