Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pecopteris \Pe*cop"te*ris\ (p[-e]*k[o^]p"t[-e]*r[i^]s), prop. n.
[NL., fr. Gr. pe`kein to comb + petri`s a kind of fern.]
(Paleon.)
An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the
regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pecopteris
n 1: Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular
arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb