HyperDic: genus_adiantum

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Adiantum:
NOUNplantgenus Adiantum, Adiantumcosmopolitan genus of ferns
English > genus Adiantum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningcosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family ... / family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.
SynonymAdiantum
Member ofPteridaceae, family PteridaceaeOne of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
Membersmaidenhair, maidenhair fernAny of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
Broaderfern genusgenera of ferns and fern allies
Spanishadiantum, genus adiantum
Catalanadiantum, Adiantum, genus adiantum

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