FAMILY PTERIDACEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pteridaceae mean? 

• FAMILY PTERIDACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY PTERIDACEAE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: FAMILY PTERIDACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PTERIDACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Pteridaceae; Pteridaceae

Hypernyms ("family Pteridaceae" is a kind of...):

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "family Pteridaceae"):

genus Pityrogramma; Pityrogramma (terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

genus Pellaea; Pellaea (genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

genus Onychium; Onychium (small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: claw ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae)

genus Jamesonia; Jamesonia (xerophytic ferns of South America)

Doryopteris; genus Doryopteris (small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae)

Cryptogramma; genus Cryptogramma (sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae)

Coniogramme; genus Coniogramme (terrestrial ferns of Pacific islands and Asia)

Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes (small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

Anogramma; genus Anogramma (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Pteridaceae)

Adiantum; genus Adiantum (cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

Actiniopteris; genus Actiniopteris (terrestrial ferns of tropical Asia and Africa)

Acrostichum; genus Acrostichum (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)

genus Pteris; Pteris (large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae)

Holonyms ("family Pteridaceae" is a member of...):

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