Associations to the word «Pteridophyta»

Wiktionary

PTERIDOPHYTA, proper noun. A taxonomic division within the kingdom Plantae   — ferns, etc.

Dictionary definition

PTERIDOPHYTA, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats