Definition of Cheilanthes

1. Noun. Small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Cheilanthes
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Member holonyms: Lip Fern, Lipfern, Cheilanthes Gracillima, Lace Fern

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheilanthes

Cheddarheads
Cheddaring
Chediak-Higashi disease
Chediak-Higashi syndrome
Chediak-Steinbrinck-Higashi anomaly
Chediak-Steinbrinck-Higashi syndrome
Cheek
Cheerio
Cheerio effect
Cheerios
Cheetos
Cheever
Chehalem berries
Chehalem berry
Chehalem blackberry
Cheilanthes (current term)
Cheilanthes alabamensis
Cheilanthes eatonii
Cheilanthes gracillima
Cheilanthes lanosa
Cheiranthus
Cheiranthus allionii
Cheiranthus asperus
Cheiranthus cheiri
Cheka
Chekhov
Chekhov's gun
Chekhovian
Chekov
Chelicerata

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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