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GENUS DAVALLIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Davallia mean?

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

1. Old World tropical fern; in some classification systems placed directly in family Polypodiaceae

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS DAVALLIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Old World tropical fern; in some classification systems placed directly in family Polypodiaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Davallia"):

davallia (any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes)

hare's-foot fern (either of two ferns of the genus Davallia having a soft grey hairy rootstock)

Canary Island hare's foot fern; Davallia canariensis (fern of the Canary Islands and Madeira)

Australian hare's foot; Davallia pyxidata (a hare's-foot fern of the genus Davallia)

ball fern; Davalia bullata; Davalia bullata mariesii; Davallia Mariesii; squirrel's-foot fern (feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia)

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

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

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