GENUS CYSTOPTERIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cystopteris mean? 

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

1. chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CYSTOPTERIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cystopteris; genus Cystopteris

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cystopteris"):

bladder fern (any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori)

Holonyms ("genus 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)