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Lygodium

noun

chiefly tropical climbing ferns

• Syn: ↑genus Lygodium

• Hypernyms: ↑fern genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Schizaeaceae, ↑family Schizaeaceae

• Member Meronyms: ↑climbing fern

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\\līˈgōdēəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek lygōdēs like a willow (from lygos willow, withe) + New Latin -ium

: a genus of mostly tropical ferns (family Schizaeaceae) characterized by twining fronds that have mostly opposite pairs of pinnae below and sporophylls above — see climbing fern

Useful english dictionary. 2012.