pellaea
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1. genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fern genus, |
| definition | : | genera of ferns and fern allies (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | button fern, pellaea rotundifolia, |
| definition | : | fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family pteridaceae, pteridaceae, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
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