WOODSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodsia mean? 

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

1. any fern of the genus Woodsia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fern of the genus Woodsia

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Nouns denoting plants

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

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodsia"):

fragrant woodsia; oblong woodsia; rusty woodsia; Woodsia ilvensis (a common rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate regions having rusty-brown stipes and lanceolate pinnate fronds)

Alpine woodsia; flower-cup fern; northern woodsia; Woodsia alpina (slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori)

smooth woodsia; Woodsia glabella (rock-inhabiting fern of Arctic and subarctic Europe to eastern Asia)

Holonyms ("woodsia" is a member of...):

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