Definition of Polystichum

1. Noun. Small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Polystichum

Polyplax
Polypodiaceae
Polypodiales
Polypodium aureum
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Polypodium polypodioides
Polypodium scouleri
Polypodium virgianum
Polypodium vulgare
Polyporus frondosus
Polyporus squamosus
Polyporus tenuiculus
Polyprion
Polyprion americanus
Polysphondylium
Polystichum (current term)
Polystichum acrostichoides
Polystichum aculeatum
Polystichum adiantiformis
Polystichum braunii
Polystichum lonchitis
Polystichum scopulinum
Polystichum setiferum
Pomacanthus
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus leucostictus
Pomaderris
Pomaderris apetala
Pomatomidae

Literary usage of Polystichum

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

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"About fifteen years ago the endeavour wns made to cross Polystichum aculeatum with ... The object was to obtain a narrow cruciate variety of Polystichum ..."

2. The British Ferns: Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions, with the Needful ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1861)
"ASPIDIUM (Polystichum) ACULEATUM, L. Prickly Shield-Fern. Far. a. LOBATUM. ASPIDIUM (Polystichum) aculeatum; caudex short, erect, stout, knotted, ..."

3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1856)
"... further observations on the living plant, and will probably be able to show satisfactorily whether this is, or is not, au abnormal form of Polystichum ..."

4. The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia by Joseph Theophilus Singewald, Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"He has been good enough to examine the fossil for me and considers it an ally of the historic and extremely variable Polystichum trian- ..."

5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"Polystichum is probably older 30 than Aspidium, being cosmopolitan, while Aspidium is tropical, and rather nearer in character to ..."

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