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Definition of Onoclea sensibilis
1. Noun. Beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Onoclea, Onoclea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onoclea Sensibilis
Literary usage of Onoclea sensibilis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"... Onoclea sensibilis. Native of North America, Florida, and the variety O.
obtusiloba in Pennsylvania. Was known in England as early as 1699, ..."
2. The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession by James William; Dawson (1888)
"... deposed from the high position they held in the Palaeozoic, they still existed;
and there are more especially FIG. \c,T.—Onoclea sensibilis. Eocene. ..."
3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"Note on Onoclea sensibilis. Perhaps it will be interesting to some of the readers
of' The Phytologist' to know that Onoclea sensibilis grows in an old ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"Turning to Gray's Botany, plate xviii., I was struck with the resemblance between
his figure of Onoclea sensibilis and that given by Mr. ..."
5. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1896)
"Perhaps they might appear later in the season, since the sporophylls were much
younger than those on Onoclea-sensibilis on which they occurred. ..."
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