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Definition of Prickly shield fern
1. Noun. North American fern whose more or less evergreen leathery fronds are covered with pale brown chafflike scales.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickly Shield Fern
Literary usage of Prickly shield fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"Common Prickly Shield-fern. Frond twice pinnate ; leaflets egg-shaped, pointed,
stalked, somewhat crescent-shaped, fringed with prickly ..."
2. Young Englishwoman: A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty (1867)
"It is by но means so common as the prickly shield fern; I have only found it a
few times, excepting in the Isle of Wight, but it has always been in similar ..."
3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1900)
"As regards strong-growing evergreen hardy Ferns, however, none can compare with
the prickly shield fern and the soft prickly shield fern and its beautiful ..."
4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"As regards strong-growing evergreen hardy Ferns, however, none can compare with
the prickly shield fern and the soft prickly shield fern and its beautiful ..."
5. The fern paradise: a plea for the culture of ferns by Francis George Heath (1878)
"[¡HE Hard, or Common prickly shield fern, is one of the largest and most robust of
... The stem or stipes of the Hard prickly shield fern is somewhat short, ..."
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