CLASS FILICOPSIDA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does class Filicopsida mean? 

• CLASS FILICOPSIDA (noun)
  The noun CLASS FILICOPSIDA has 1 sense:

1. ferns

  Familiarity information: CLASS FILICOPSIDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASS FILICOPSIDA (noun)

Meaning:

Ferns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Filicinae; class Filicopsida; Filicinae; Filicopsida

Hypernyms ("class Filicopsida" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "class Filicopsida"):

Cryptogrammataceae; family Cryptogrammataceae (one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

Marattiales; order Marattiales (lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae)

family Loxomataceae; Loxomataceae (very small family of New Zealand ferns)

family Lophosoriaceae; Lophosoriaceae (very small family of tree ferns)

family Lomariopsidaceae; Lomariopsidaceae (small family of usually scandent ferns)

Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

Dennstaedtiaceae; family Dennstaedtiaceae; Davalliaceae; family Davalliaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

Cyatheaceae; family Cyatheaceae (tropical tree ferns)

Adiantaceae; family Adiantaceae (used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae))

Filicales; order Filicales; order Polypodiales; Polypodiales (true (leptosporangiate) ferns)

Ophioglossales; order Ophioglossales (coextensive with the family Ophioglossaceae)

family Salviniaceae; Salviniaceae (water ferns)

family Marsileaceae; Marsileaceae (clover ferns)

family Schizaeaceae; Schizaeaceae (small family of mainly tropical ferns)

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

family Thelypteridaceae; Thelypteridaceae (genera Thelypteris, Phegopteris, and others)

Holonyms ("class Filicopsida" is a member of...):

division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (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)