DRYNARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Drynaria mean? 

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

1. large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRYNARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Drynaria; genus Drynaria

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Drynaria"):

basket fern; Drynaria rigidula (giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia)

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

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))