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Pteropsida

noun

used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae

• Syn: ↑subdivision Pteropsida

• Hypernyms: ↑division

• Member Holonyms: ↑Tracheophyta, ↑division Tracheophyta

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\\-sədə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Pteropsis, genus of ferns (from pter- + -opsis) + -ida

: a subdivision of Tracheophyta comprising vascular plants (as the ferns and flowering plants) with well-developed and typically large leaves, leaf gaps usually present in the primary vascular cylinder, and sporangia abaxial on normal or modified leaves and including the classes Filicineae, Gymnospermae, and Angiospermae — compare lycopsida, psilopsida, sphenopsida

Useful english dictionary. 2012.