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Cystopteris

noun

chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae

• Syn: ↑genus Cystopteris

• Hypernyms: ↑fern genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Dryopteridaceae, ↑family Dryopteridaceae, ↑Athyriaceae, ↑family Athyriaceae

• Member Meronyms: ↑bladder fern

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\\siˈstäptərə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from cyst- + -pteris

: a genus of ferns (family Polypodiaceae) of the north temperate zone having a hooded or arched indusium partly under the roundish sori — see bladder fern, fragile fern

Useful english dictionary. 2012.