GENUS ATHYRIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Athyrium mean? 

• GENUS ATHYRIUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS ATHYRIUM has 1 sense:

1. temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus Asplenium

  Familiarity information: GENUS ATHYRIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ATHYRIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus Asplenium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Athyrium; genus Athyrium

Hypernyms ("genus Athyrium" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Athyrium"):

Athyrium filix-femina; lady fern (most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage)

Athyrium pycnocarpon; Diplazium pycnocarpon; glade fern; narrow-leaved spleenwort; silvery spleenwort (North American fern with narrow fronds on yellowish leafstalks)

Holonyms ("genus Athyrium" 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)