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PTERETIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does Pteretis mean?

• PTERETIS (noun)
The noun PTERETIS has 1 sense:

1. small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae

Familiarity information: PTERETIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PTERETIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Matteuccia; genus Pteretis; Matteuccia; Pteretis

Hypernyms ("Pteretis" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Pteretis"):

fiddlehead; Matteuccia struthiopteris; Onoclea struthiopteris; ostrich fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; shuttlecock fern (tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes)

Holonyms ("Pteretis" is a member of...):

Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)

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