Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; 
 in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta; 
[syn: Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
division Pteridophyta
    n 1: containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds:
         ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some
         classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
         [syn: Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta]