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Definition of Onychium
1. Noun. Small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Definition of Onychium
1. a pad on an insect's foot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onychium
Literary usage of Onychium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1858)
"onychium, Kaulf. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. XI. ... to these he gave the generic name
of onychium. Fil. t. 107, ¡ind O. Capense—incorrect as to locality ..."
2. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"THE genus onychium is small, and although Fee in his "Genres de la Famille des
... Formerly onychium was considered by some authorities a Pteris, ..."
3. Five Months on the Yang-Tsze: And Notices of the Present Rebellions in China by Thomas Wright Blakiston (1862)
"69 ; onychium Japonicum, Kunze, in Schk. Fil. Suppl. p. ... It is assuredly
identical with the onychium lucidum of the East Indies, where it abounds in the ..."
4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1894)
"onychium present Onthophagus. cc. Hind tibiae with two spurs. Species oblong-convex
or subcylindrical, usually small. f. Mandibles visible beyond the ..."
5. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"... and it appears to me that Decaisne and Kunze have correctly referred it to
onychium ; the specific name is derived from the black scales on the caudex, ..."
6. A Century of Ferns: Being Figures with Brief Descriptions of One Hundred New ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"... and it appears to me that Decaisne and Kunze have correctly referred it to
onychium ; the specific name is derived from the black scales on the caudex, ..."
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