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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of delicate flaccid polypodi-aceous ferns having the sori borne on the back of the leaf on the middle of a vein and covered with a membranaceous indusium attached only by the base; the bladder-ferns.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae
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