Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The scaly fern or miltwaste, Asplenium Ceterach, a native of Europe and western Asia.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of small pin-natifid polypodiaceous ferns related to Asplenium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A species of fern with fronds (
Asplenium Ceterach ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
species offern withfronds (Asplenium ceterach).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus
Etymologies
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French cétérac, from Arabic shetrak.
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