Definition of Scaly fern

1. Noun. Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds.

Exact synonyms: Asplenium Ceterach, Ceterach Officinarum, Scale Fern
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Asplenium, Genus Asplenium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaly Fern

scalpers
scalpings
scalpins
scalpless
scalpriform
scalpriform incisors
scalprum
scalprums
scalps
scaly
scaly-sided merganser
scaly-winged
scaly anteater
scaly anteaters
scaly fern (current term)
scaly leg
scaly lentinus
scaly pholiota
scaly polypore
scaly ringworm
scaly tetter
scalyfoot
scam
scam artist
scamble
scambled
scambler
scamblers
scambles

Literary usage of Scaly fern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report and Transactions (1894)
"THE FERN FAMILY. Brakes, bracken. Blechnum ; hard fern. Wall-rue. Spleen wort. Black spleenwort. Lady fern. scaly fern. Scaly-back. Hart's-tongue. ..."

2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"Sori linear : Ceterach, of which the common scaly fern, C. officinarum, was long in repute as an astringent medicine, (ii. ) Son along the edge of the frond ..."

3. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"They have various names, such as lace fern, lip fern, woolly-back fern, and scaly fern ; No. 3, Fig. 28, is one leaf of a lace fern. ..."

4. A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns: Containing Species and Varieties by Edward Joseph Lowe (1865)
"AN exceedingly handsome, stove, very scaly Fern, introduced into this country in 1859, from spores, by Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray, from Jamaica. ..."

5. A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns: Containing Species and Varieties by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"AN exceedingly handsome, stove, very scaly Fern, introduced into this country in 1859, from spores, by Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray, from Jamaica. ..."

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