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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A family of plants comprising the tree ferns; it includes the genera Dicksonia; Cibotium; Culcita; and Thyrsopteris.
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- noun tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans
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However, an international team of researchers led by Ms Marisa Arosa of the University of Coimbra in Portugal became suspicious when they noticed bite marks on fertile leaves of the rare fern C. macrocarpa, the only endemic member of a family of ferns called Dicksoniaceae in Europe.
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