Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of polypodiaceous ferns, type of the tribe Dryopterideæ with fronds pinnate to tripinnate or dissected, the venation usually free, and the sori roundish with superior cordato-reniform indusia fixed at the sinus.
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- noun large widespread genus of medium-sized terrestrial ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae
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This autumn fern, dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’ is looking colorful and fresh.
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This is the Oak Fern of the herbalists; not that of modern botanists (_Polypodium dryopteris_); it being held that such Fern plants as grew upon the roots of an oak tree were of special medicinal powers, _Quod nascit super radices quercûs est efficacius_.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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