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noun
Any of a diverse group of seedless vascular plants that disperse by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations, but are not true ferns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pteridophyte, nonflowering plant
Narrower terms: whisk fern, horsetail, club moss, club-moss, lycopod, quillwort
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