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Definition of Drynaria
1. Noun. Large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Polypodiaceae, Polypodiaceae
Member holonyms: Basket Fern, Drynaria Rigidula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drynaria
Literary usage of Drynaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of the Ferns of British India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula by Richard Henry Beddome (1883)
"drynaria. (Bory.) (Dryads, the sterile fronds being like oak-leaves, a tree sacred
to the Dryads.) Fronds articulate with the caudex, with either a separate ..."
2. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1857)
"Mr. Smith considers it allied to his drynaria (or P/iy- ... drynaria hastata,
Fee.—Asa Gray in Williams and Morrow's Japan PL p. 329. ..."
3. A Monograph of the British Eocene Flora by John Starkie Gardner, Constantin Baron Ettingshausen (1882)
"9) and drynaria (fig. 10) types of venation belonging to the group with ...
In the drynaria type the anastomosing ternary veins are given off in a pinnate ..."
4. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"117 (according to his reference to J. Sm.). Pr. Reliq. Hank. \. p. 22. t. 3.f.
22. drynaria, J. Sm. Hab. Java, Zollinger, De Vriese, ..."
5. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1857)
"... anastomosing veins and small irregular aréoles ; from drynaria by the ...
drynaria Fortunei (T. Moor), ..."
6. Historia Filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"Of drynaria of Bory he says, "We have kept separate the very distinct-looking
little groups of drynaria and ..."
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