pteris
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1. large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fern genus, |
| definition | : | genera of ferns and fern allies (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | brake, |
| definition | : | any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | pteris cretica, |
| definition | : | cultivated in many varieties as houseplants (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family pteridaceae, pteridaceae, |
| definition | : | one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided (noun.plant) |
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