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Definition of Meniscium

1. Noun. Terrestrial ferns of tropical Americas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meniscium

Literary usage of Meniscium

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 (1864)
"Meniscium, Schreb. (HooK. GEN. TAB. XL.) Sori oblong or linear or sometimes orbicular and geminate, arising from the transverse connivent veinlets. ..."

2. Historia filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"11), which are strictly characteristic of the genus Meniscium, but since the species was first ... Other instances also occur to show that Meniscium and ..."

3. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"It was not known to the illustrious author that any species of Meniscium was ... To the genus Meniscium belong several species remarkable for their ..."

4. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1861)
"... and also near Turbo, on the east side of the Gulf of Uraba, where it occurred with its congener. Meniscium PALUSTRE, Radd. Filic. Bras. p. 9, t. 20. ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1818)
"The old trunks of the Cyathea and Meniscium are coated with a coal-like powder which (free, perhaps, from hydrogen) has a metallic lustre like graphite. ..."

6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"Dryopteris cuspidata (Blume) Meniscium cuspidatum Blume Fil. Jav. 102. t. 45. ... Hose, and differs from the plant of northern India (Meniscium ..."

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