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Definition of Ceterach officinarum

1. Noun. Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceterach Officinarum

Literary usage of Ceterach officinarum

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

1. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"The British species, ceterach officinarum, or Scaly Spleen- wort (fig. 64), has deeply pinnatifid, lanceolate fronds, with oblong, obtuse, ..."

2. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"ceterach officinarum, Willd. Sp. Plant. v. 136 ; Franc. 20 ; Newm. NA 28, F. 293 ; Hook. and Am. 566 ; Bab. 415 ; Moore, 181. ..."

3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1847)
"Very Asplenium Trichomanes 10 large, with the peculiar ra- ceterach officinarum 5 dical leaves invariably pre- Oxalis corniculata (cultivated sent whilst in ..."

4. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1848)
"... and septentrionale; ceterach officinarum; Adiantum capillus veneris; ... Pteris aquilina ; ceterach officinarum ; Trichomanes radicans; ..."

5. The Annals of Horticulture (1849)
"... ingredient in the compost in which they are planted ; such are Polypodium calcareum ; ceterach officinarum; and Asplenium Trichomanes, and Ruta-muraria. ..."

6. English Medicine in the Anglo-Saxon Times: Two Lectures Delivered Before the by Joseph Frank Payne (1904)
"... (ceterach officinarum). 11. For disease of spleen, take roots of this same wort, which the Greeks name a<nr\fyu>v (asplenium), ..."

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