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Definition of Northern woodsia
1. Noun. Slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Woodsia
Literary usage of Northern woodsia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Ferns: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of Our by Frances Theodora Parsons (1899)
"The Smooth Woodsia closely resembles the northern woodsia, and one may expect to
find it in much the same parts of the country. ..."
2. A guide to the Pyrenees by Charles Packe (1867)
"northern woodsia. Fronds 5 to 15 centimetres, narrow-lanceolate, pinnate.
Pinnae triangular and pinnatifid, with rounded obtuse segments, the lobes being 5 ..."
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