Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of species of the genus Lygodium, of which there are several native to Japan, Australia, and tropical America.

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  • We have none of the handsome climbing-fern here, with its palmate leaves; it is found as far north as this, but nearer the coast, and on lower ground.

    Rural Hours 1887

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