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Definition of Lygodium
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical climbing ferns.
Group relationships: Family Schizaeaceae, Schizaeaceae
Member holonyms: Climbing Fern
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Definition of Lygodium
1. n. A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.
Medical Definition of Lygodium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lygodium
Literary usage of Lygodium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1876)
"Allied to the living lygodium venustum •which ranges from Mexico to Brazil.
HABITAT. ... lygodium DENTONI, sp. nov. Leaflets bi-tripartite, with short, ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"lygodium. The most interesting relationships in the Schizaeaceae are, ...
that this question hi: nowhere been discussed in descriptions of lygodium. ..."
3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The sporangia were relatively large, with the annulus consisting of more than a
single series of cells. Of the living forms lygodium represents structurally ..."
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