GENUS DORYOPTERIS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Doryopteris mean? 

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

1. small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DORYOPTERIS (noun)

Meaning:

Small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Doryopteris; genus Doryopteris

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

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Doryopteris"):

Doryopteris pedata; hand fern (tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds)

Holonyms ("genus Doryopteris" 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)