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PTERIDOPHYTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pteridophyta mean? 

PTERIDOPHYTA (noun)
  The noun PTERIDOPHYTA has 1 sense:

1. containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophytaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PTERIDOPHYTA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta

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

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Meronyms (members of "Pteridophyta"):

genus Pecopteris (genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns)

nonflowering plant; pteridophyte (plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores)

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

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

class Psilopsida; class Psilotatae; Psilopsida; Psilotatae (whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs)

order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)

class Equisetatae; class Sphenopsida; Equisetatae; Sphenopsida (horsetails and related forms)

class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)

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

kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)


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