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Definition of Doodia

1. Noun. Any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae.

2. Noun. In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doodia

doober doobers doobie doobies doobries doobry doobs dooced doocot doocots

dood doodad doodads doodah doodahs doodia (current term) doodies doodlebug doodlebugger doodlebuggers

doodlebugs doodled doodlelike doodler doodlers doodles doodlesack doodley-squat doodling

Literary usage of Doodia

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

1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1849)
"the fronds are not much unlike doodia and Woodwardia ; but the venation is more simple : and when the fructifications, as is sometimes the case, ..."

2. Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1823)
"Br. doodia caudata, BR. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 151. Woodwardia caudata, CAT. Demonstr. n. 653.—SWARTZ, Syn. Fil, p. 116. ..."

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