PTEROPSIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pteropsida mean? 

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

1. used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PTEROPSIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Pteropsida; subdivision Pteropsida

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

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

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

division Tracheophyta; Tracheophyta (in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants)