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Definition of Cyathea

1. Noun. Type genus of the Cyatheaceae: tree ferns of the tropical rain forest to temperate woodlands.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyathea

Literary usage of Cyathea

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

1. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1908)
"The customary division of these tree-ferns into three genera, cyathea, ... I have therefore treated them all as species of one genus, cyathea, ..."

2. Handbook of the Ferns of British India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula by Richard Henry Beddome (1883)
"cyathea SPINULOSA. {Wall.) A tall tree fern; stipes and main rachis beneath, strongly aculeate, dark purple ; fronds glabrous, ..."

3. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"... Equisetum, Botrychium, Blechnum brasiliense, and cyathea medullaris, tetrarch in Equisetum, the Blechnum above mentioned, and cyathea. ..."

4. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1857)
"SECTION OF STEM OF TREE-FERN.t (cyathea.) • * Fig. 21, ra, Rachis, greatly thickened towards its base hy numerous aerial roots, shot downwards to tho soil, ..."

5. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"cyathea. Sori continuous along the transverse veins near the midrib and also along the ... cyathea, Sm. Sori globular, situated upon a vein or veinlet, ..."

6. An Introduction to the Study of Cryptogamous Plants: In Letters by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1807)
"By this marginal situation Dicksonia is distinct from cyathea, in which the cups of fructification are situated on the substance of the leaf itself. ..."

7. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... seldom naked the stems trailing below, sometimes erect i above. [GD] cyathea. An extensive genus of arborescent ferns representative of tbe Cy- 1 ..."

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