cheilanthes
Noun
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Small evergreen ferns: lipferns;
In some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae (synset 113229366)is a type of: fern genus - genera of ferns and fern alliesmember holonym:- 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
belongs to: 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 subdividedsame as: genus cheilanthes
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