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Blechnum

noun

in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns

• Syn: ↑genus Blechnum

• Hypernyms: ↑fern genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Blechnaceae, ↑family Blechnaceae

• Member Meronyms: ↑hard fern

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\\-nəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin blachnon, blechnon, a fern, from Greek blēchnon

: a genus of chiefly tropical ferns (family Polypodiaceae) having rather stiff pinnate leaves with the sori linear and parallel to the midvein of the pinnae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.