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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of ferns having roundish sori at or near the ends of the veins, each sorus being covered by anindusium formed from the reflexed margin of the frond. The genus includes more than fifty species, widely distributed in tropical and temperate zones, the greater number growing in the warmer parts of North and South America.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
Examples
“Many fine ferns dwell here also, especially the beautiful and interesting rock-ferns -- pellaea, and cheilanthes of several species -- fringing and rosetting dry rock-piles and ledges; woodwardia and asplenium on damp spots with fronds six or seven feet high; the delicate maiden-hair in mossy nooks by the falls, and the sturdy, broad-shouldered pteris covering nearly all the dry ground beneath the oaks and pines.”
“Naturally enough the greater number are rock ferns -- pellaea, cheilanthes, polypodium, adiantum, woodsia, cryptogramma, etc., with small tufted fronds, lining cool glens and fringing the seams of the cliffs.”
“I have seen three aspidiums, two woodsias, a lomaria, polypodium, cheilanthes, and several species of pteris.”
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“On the very top of Pinnacle Peak and similar elevations, grows the beautiful mountain lace fern (_cheilanthes gracillima.”
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