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FAMILY VITTARIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Vittariaceae mean?
• FAMILY VITTARIACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY VITTARIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria
Familiarity information: FAMILY VITTARIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems: genus Vittaria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Vittariaceae; Vittariaceae
Hypernyms ("family Vittariaceae" is a kind of...):
fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "family Vittariaceae"):
genus Vittaria; Vittaria (tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds)
Holonyms ("family Vittariaceae" is a member of...):
Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)
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