Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of polypodiaceous ferns, the equivalent of Cystopteris (Bernhardi, 1806). The type of the genus is F. bulbifera, the common bladder-fern of the United States and Canada. See
Cystopteris and bladder-fern.
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Examples
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Streamside herbaceous communities are typically lush with Pacific sword fern, deer fern (Blechnum spicant) and lady fern (Atherium filix-femina), and often include Oxalis (Oxalis oregona).
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008
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[1548] Neglectis urenda filix innascitur agris. — — — for, a neglected field
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Tertiary relicts include: Asarum europaeum, Stachys sylvatica, Dryopteris filix mas, and Festuca gigantea.
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_ Ferne; _polipodium_, &c.; _ubi_ brakān (a Brakān; filix).
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Horace is still more severe, "neglectis urenda filix innascitur agris."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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The term paku, applied to it by the Malays, shows that they consider it as partaking of the nature of the fern (filix) and Rumphius, who names it
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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File: White Trillium Lady Fern. jpg | [[Lady fern]] ( '' Athyrium filix-femina '')
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Distribution of male fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, in New Zealand, based on specimens in Te Papa's WELT herbarium.
Museum Blogs 2009
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Sic fervata, prgftolafti vit ut ApolTini Pyifaio judi - eft tempus folennis omnium cium fponfi filix deligendi Boeotdrum conventus» quse permitterent Ilfi indigne fe - Pambceotia vocantur: quod 'rentes hanc ejus orationem, ubi appulit, Coroneam pro*
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua: Plutarchi Chaeronensis ... 1797
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H - lust Swartz hocce Polypodium Burmanni sub nomine Pteridis diversifoliae descripsit, sed est filix tantum junior hujus speciei, vidi enim specimina intermedia quae transitum demon - strant.
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