Definition of Cryptogramma crispa

1. Noun. Fern of Europe and Asia Minor having short slender rhizome and densely tufted bright green fronds resembling parsley.

Exact synonyms: European Parsley Fern, Mountain Parsley Fern
Generic synonyms: Rock Brake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogramma Crispa

Cruyff turn
Cruz trypanosomiasis
Cryogenian
Cryptacanthodes
Cryptacanthodes maculatus
Cryptobranchidae
Cryptobranchus
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
Cryptocercidae
Cryptocercus
Cryptococcus
Cryptocystis trichodectis
Cryptogamia
Cryptogramma
Cryptogramma acrostichoides
Cryptogramma crispa (current term)
Cryptogrammataceae
Cryptomeria
Cryptomeria japonica
Cryptophyceae
Cryptophyta
Cryptoprocta
Cryptoprocta ferox
Cryptostroma corticale
Cryptotermes
Cryptotermes brevis
Cryptotis
Cryptotis parva
Crystal
Crèvecœur-le-Grand

Literary usage of Cryptogramma crispa

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

1. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"Pteris crispa, (Linn. MSS.); With. Arr. 764; Sm. EF iv. 319, EB 1160. Cryptogramma crispa, Mack. Fl. Hib. 343; Franc. 57; Hook. and Am. 575. ..."

2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland by Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy (1845)
"... is found abundance of the beautiful Cryptogramma crispa, and in the Glen of Ness the Polypodium dryopteris, ..."

3. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"... (1800), (adopted in part by Presl), and the species above mentioned are of the same antiquity. We are well aware that Cryptogramma crispa, Br. is the ..."

4. Himalayan journals; or, Notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1855)
"... and to which we crossed, ascending the rocky moraine, in the clefts of which grew abundance of a common Scotch fern, Cryptogramma crispa ! ..."

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