English > Filicopsida: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | ferns. |
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| Synonyms | class Filicopsida, Filicinae, class Filicinae |
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| Member of | Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta | Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds |
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| Members | Adiantaceae, family Adiantaceae | Used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae) |
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| Cryptogrammataceae, family Cryptogrammataceae | One of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems |
| Cyatheaceae, family Cyatheaceae | Tropical tree ferns |
| Davalliaceae, family Davalliaceae | One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems |
| Dennstaedtiaceae, family Dennstaedtiaceae | One of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems |
| Dryopteridaceae, family Dryopteridaceae, Athyriaceae, family Athyriaceae | Alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems |
| Filicales, order Filicales, Polypodiales, order Polypodiales | true (leptosporangiate) ferns |
| Lomariopsidaceae, family Lomariopsidaceae | small family of usually scandent ferns |
| Lophosoriaceae, family Lophosoriaceae | Very small family of tree ferns |
| Loxomataceae, family Loxomataceae | Very small family of New Zealand ferns |
| Marattiales, order Marattiales | Lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae |
| Marsileaceae, family Marsileaceae | clover ferns |
| Ophioglossales, order Ophioglossales | coextensive with the family Ophioglossaceae |
| Salviniaceae, family Salviniaceae | water ferns |
| Schizaeaceae, family Schizaeaceae | small family of mainly tropical ferns |
| Thelypteridaceae, family Thelypteridaceae | genera Thelypteris, Phegopteris, and others |
| fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | clase filicíneas, clase filicópsidas, filicales, filicíneas, filicíneos, filicopsida |
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| Catalan | filicopsida |
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