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Acrostichum

noun

in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae

• Syn: ↑genus Acrostichum

• Hypernyms: ↑fern genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Pteridaceae, ↑family Pteridaceae

• Member Meronyms: ↑golden fern, ↑leather fern, ↑Acrostichum aureum

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\\-kəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, irregular from Greek akrostichis; from the arrangement of the spores on the leaflets

: a genus of tropical ferns (family Polypodiaceae) with varied habit but with the sporangia covering all the underside of the frond

Useful english dictionary. 2012.