oreopteris

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   3 species of ferns formerly included in genus Dryopteris or Thelypteris

   Synonymsgenus Oreopteris

   Broaderfern genus

   Part ofThelypteridaceae

Other forms of oreopteris

plural

oreopterises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oreopteris

What does oreopteris mean?

oreopteris means "3 species of ferns formerly included in genus Dryopteris or Thelypteris".

How many syllables are in oreopteris?

oreopteris has 5 syllables: o-re-op-te-ris. The stress falls on "op".

What is another word for oreopteris?

Close synonyms include genus Oreopteris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oreopteris a common word?

oreopteris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.