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GENUS CHEILANTHES

• GENUS CHEILANTHES (noun)
The noun GENUS CHEILANTHES has 1 sense:

1. small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae

Familiarity information: GENUS CHEILANTHES used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS CHEILANTHES (noun)

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genus Cheilanthes ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes

Hypernyms ("genus Cheilanthes" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cheilanthes"):

lip fern; lipfern (any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions)

Cheilanthes gracillima; lace fern (small tufted fern of northwestern America)

Holonyms ("genus Cheilanthes" is a member of...):

family Pteridaceae; Pteridaceae (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)

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