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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Pteridophyta, division Pteridophytanoun

    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

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  1. pteridophyta

    A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, horsetails (often treated as ferns), and lycophytes (clubmosses, spikemosses, and quillworts) are all pteridophytes. However, they do not form a monophyletic group because ferns (and horsetails) are more closely related to seed plants than to lycophytes. "Pteridophyta" is thus no longer a widely accepted taxon, but the term pteridophyte remains in common parlance, as do pteridology and pteridologist as a science and its practitioner, respectively. Ferns and lycophytes share a life cycle and are often collectively treated or studied, for example by the International Association of Pteridologists and the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group.

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  1. pteridophyta

    Pteridophyta is a classification of plants, also known as ferns and horsetails. They are considered vascular plants and are characterized by having life cycles with alternating generations and the presence of spores, rather than seeds. They can be found in a wide variety of habitats all around the world.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pteridophyta

    a class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia

  2. Etymology: [NL., from Gr. , , a fern + a plant.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pteridophyta in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pteridophyta in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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