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Definition of Pteris cretica
1. Noun. Cultivated in many varieties as houseplants.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pteris Cretica
Literary usage of Pteris cretica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1889)
"We investigate the root of Pteris cretica (Fig. 71), but can equally well choose
any other species ... The roots of Pteris cretica, as of ferns generally, ..."
2. A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns: Containing Species and Varieties by Edward Joseph Lowe (1865)
"The form is the same as in the Pteris cretica, being pinnate, with usually three
pairs of lanceolate-sessile pinnae, and a terminal much longer one. ..."
3. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"Pteris cretica Linn. var. stenophylla Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. (1829) t. ...
Pteris cretica is exceedingly variable in the Philippines, I have not seen from ..."
4. The Structure & Development of the Mosses & Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1895)
"In Pteris cretica, where usually no archegonia are developed, the cushion of
tissue which ordinarily produces them is formed as usual ; but instead of ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Mary Frances (Ewart) Macdonald, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... variegated form of Pteris cretica, frequently cultivated in greenhouses. ...
and on those of wild plants of Pteris cretica, fertilization takes place in ..."
6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"... variegated form of Pteris cretica, frequently cultivated in greenhouses. ...
and on those of wild plants of Pteris cretica, fertilization takes place in ..."
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