English > Pteridophyta: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta. |
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| Synonym | division Pteridophyta |
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| Member of | Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom | (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants |
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| Members | Filicopsida, class Filicopsida, Filicinae, class Filicinae | ferns |
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| Lycopsida, class Lycopsida, Lycopodiate, class Lycopodiate | club mosses and related forms |
| Psilophytales, order Psilophytales | Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants |
| Psilopsida, class Psilopsida, Psilotatae, class Psilotatae | whisk ferns |
| Sphenopsida, class Sphenopsida, Equisetatae, class Equisetatae | horsetails and related forms |
| fern family | families of ferns and fern allies |
| fern genus | genera of ferns and fern allies |
| genus Pecopteris | genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns |
| pteridophyte, nonflowering plant | plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores |
| Broader | division | (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum |
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| Spanish | pteridofitos |
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| Catalan | Falguera, Pteridophyta |
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