Translingual

Proper noun

Dryopteris f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Dryopteridaceae – the wood ferns.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Pteridophyta - division; Polypodiopsida - class; Polypodiales - order; Dryopteridaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Dropteris filix-mas - type species; for other species see Dryopteris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Noun

dryopteris f ‎(genitive dryopteridis); third declension

1. a kind of fern, possibly a wood fern

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• dryophonon

Descendants

• Translingual: Dryopteris

References

• dryopteris in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dryopteris”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.