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pecopteris
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pecopteris has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
pecopteris, prop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. pe`kein to comb + petri`s a kind of fern.].
An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets. [1913 Webster]
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