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)