Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae);
[syn: Polypodiaceae, family Polypodiaceae]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Polypodiaceae
n 1: ferns: a large family that in some classification systems
has been subdivided into several families (including
Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and
Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and
Pteridaceae) [syn: Polypodiaceae, family Polypodiaceae]