WOODWARDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Woodwardia mean? 

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

1. in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODWARDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Woodwardia; Woodwardia

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Woodwardia"):

chain fern (a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows)

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

Blechnaceae; family Blechnaceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia)