Definition of Doryopteris

1. Noun. Small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Doryopteris
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Member holonyms: Doryopteris Pedata, Hand Fern

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doryopteris

Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy bag
Dorothy bags
Dorset
Dorset's culture egg medium
Dorsoduro
Dortmund
Dorylinae
Doryopteris (current term)
Doryopteris pedata
Dos a Dos
Dostoevski
Dostoevskian
Dostoevsky
Dostoyevskian
Dostoyevsky
DotA
Dothraki
Dottie
Dotto train
Dotto trains
Douala

Literary usage of Doryopteris

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

1. Handbook of the Ferns of British India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula by Richard Henry Beddome (1883)
"Doryopteris. (J. Smith.) (Dory, spear; pteris, form of the fronds.) Fronds small, sub-pedate ... Doryopteris LUDENS. (Wall.) Rhizome creeping,furnished with ..."

2. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1858)
"Pteris (or Doryopteris) ... is Pteris (or Doryopteris) pedata with free veins. Our excellent has done (in Linnaea, v. xx. p. 342), these two groups of ..."

3. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"A DWARF handsome Fern, less than Doryopteris palmata, and yet very much resembling that species, although not so much divided on the frond. ..."

4. Historia Filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"... first being free and in the second anastomosed in various ways. Sect. 1.—Veins anastomosing. 163.—Doryopteris, /. 8m. (1841). Pteris sp. auct., sect. ..."

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