class filicinae

1. Ferns (synset 113190117)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
   • family schizaeaceae, schizaeaceae - small family of mainly tropical ferns
   • family marsileaceae, marsileaceae - clover ferns
   • family salviniaceae, salviniaceae - water ferns
   • ophioglossales, order ophioglossales - coextensive with the family Ophioglossaceae
   • filicales, order filicales, order polypodiales, polypodiales - true (leptosporangiate) ferns
   • adiantaceae, family adiantaceae - used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae)
   • cyatheaceae, family cyatheaceae - tropical tree ferns
   • davalliaceae, family davalliaceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
   • dennstaedtiaceae, family dennstaedtiaceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
   • 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
   • family lomariopsidaceae, lomariopsidaceae - small family of usually scandent ferns
   • family lophosoriaceae, lophosoriaceae - very small family of tree ferns
   • family loxomataceae, loxomataceae - very small family of New Zealand ferns
   • marattiales, order marattiales - lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae
   • cryptogrammataceae, family cryptogrammataceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems
   • family thelypteridaceae, thelypteridaceae - genera Thelypteris, Phegopteris, and others
   belongs to: division pteridophyta, pteridophyta - containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
   same as: class filicopsida, filicinae, filicopsida

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