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Definition of Cheilanthes
1. Noun. Small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Member holonyms: Lip Fern, Lipfern, Cheilanthes Gracillima, Lace Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheilanthes
Literary usage of Cheilanthes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1858)
"cheilanthes, Sw. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. C VI. ... distinguished from a true
involucre : while, in old specimens of some acknowledged species of cheilanthes, ..."
2. Index Filicum: a Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, Extensively by Thomas Moore (1861)
"cheilanthes tenuifolia. microphylla, Sw. Syn. Fil. 127. ... cheilanthes microphylla,
Willd. Sp. PI. т. 468; Spreng. Bytt. ..."
3. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1897)
"cheilanthes Californica, the lace fern, is the most delicate of our varieties,
and you will often sec the best specimens away down between the cracks of ..."
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