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CYSTOPTERIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cystopteris mean?
• CYSTOPTERIS (noun)
The noun CYSTOPTERIS has 1 sense:
1. chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae
Familiarity information: CYSTOPTERIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cystopteris; genus Cystopteris
Hypernyms ("Cystopteris" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Cystopteris"):
bladder fern (any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori)
Holonyms ("Cystopteris" is a member of...):
Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
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