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Hymenophyllum

noun

type genus of the Hymenophyllaceae: filmy ferns

• Syn: ↑genus Hymenophyllum

• Hypernyms: ↑fern genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hymenophyllaceae, ↑family Hymenophyllaceae

• Member Meronyms: ↑filmy fern, ↑film fern

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈfiləm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from hymen- + -phyllum

: a genus (the type of the family Hymenophyllaceae) of tropical hygrophytic and usually epiphytic ferns distinguished from Trichomanes by having the valves of the involucre bearing the sporangia separate

Useful english dictionary. 2012.