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POLYPODIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Polypodium mean?
• POLYPODIUM (noun)
The noun POLYPODIUM has 1 sense:
1. a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori
Familiarity information: POLYPODIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Polypodium; Polypodium
Hypernyms ("Polypodium" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Polypodium"):
polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)
Holonyms ("Polypodium" 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))
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