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Definition of Spleenworts
1. spleenwort [n] - See also: spleenwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spleenworts
Literary usage of Spleenworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Young Englishwoman: A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty (1867)
"Like those of the spleenworts, the sori are on the »ide, not the back of the ...
but this is easily distinguished from the real spleenworts, by having its ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"The spleenworts arc all delicate and some are pretty little ferns, ... the Mountain,
the Narrow-leaved and the Thelypteris-like spleenworts, ..."
3. Our Native Ferns and Their Allies: With Synoptical Descriptions of the by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1888)
"In the second we find a few spleenworts, most of the shield-ferns, the
beech-ferns (Phegopteris), most of the grape- ferns ..."
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