TECTARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tectaria mean? 

• TECTARIA (noun)
  The noun TECTARIA has 1 sense:

1. terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests

  Familiarity information: TECTARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TECTARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tectaria; Tectaria

Hypernyms ("Tectaria" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Tectaria"):

button fern; Tectaria cicutaria (Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils)

Indian button fern; Tectaria macrodonta (fern of tropical Asia having round buttonlike bulbils)

Holonyms ("Tectaria" 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)