GENUS WOODSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Woodsia mean? 

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

1. genus of small to medium-sized usually rock-inhabiting ferns of temperate and cold regions; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS WOODSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of small to medium-sized usually rock-inhabiting ferns of temperate and cold regions; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Woodsia"):

woodsia (any fern of the genus Woodsia)

Holonyms ("genus Woodsia" 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)