Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A widely diffused genus of ferns with climbing stipes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chiefly tropical climbing ferns
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Examples
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I saw for the first time, too, a lygodium and the large climbing potato-fern
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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If the position is a shaded one, the drooping plants might be of the following: tradescantia, Kenilworth ivy, senecio (A) or parlor ivy, sedums, moneywort, (A) vinca, smilax, (A) lygodium (A) or climbing fern.
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_ -- English ivy, maurandia, senecio or parlor ivy, lygodium (climbing fern).
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I saw for the first time, too, a lygodium and the large climbing potato-fern
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(_lygodium_) hats, straw mats, and cigar-cases are made.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Polypodium tamariscinum, which clung tremblingly to the branches of the ohia, on the beautiful lygodium, which adorned the uncouth trunk of the breadfruit; on shining banana leaves and glossy trailing yams; on gigantic lianas, which, climbing to the tops of the largest trees, descended in vast festoons, passing from tree to tree, and interlacing the forest with a living network; and on lycopodiums of every kind, from those which wrapped the rocks in feathery green to others hardly distinguishable from ferns.
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Some include akebia (mu tong); pyrrosia flower (shi wei); plantago seed (che qian zi); dianthus herb (qu mai); lygodium spore (hai jin shu);
Letha's Asian Health Secrets Letha 2010
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