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Definition of Scaly fern
1. Noun. Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Asplenium, Genus Asplenium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaly Fern
Literary usage of Scaly fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1894)
"THE FERN FAMILY. Brakes, bracken. Blechnum ; hard fern. Wall-rue. Spleen wort.
Black spleenwort. Lady fern. scaly fern. Scaly-back. Hart's-tongue. ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"Sori linear : Ceterach, of which the common scaly fern, C. officinarum, was long
in repute as an astringent medicine, (ii. ) Son along the edge of the frond ..."
3. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"They have various names, such as lace fern, lip fern, woolly-back fern, and scaly
fern ; No. 3, Fig. 28, is one leaf of a lace fern. ..."
4. A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns: Containing Species and Varieties by Edward Joseph Lowe (1865)
"AN exceedingly handsome, stove, very scaly Fern, introduced into this country in
1859, from spores, by Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray, from Jamaica. ..."
5. A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns: Containing Species and Varieties by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"AN exceedingly handsome, stove, very scaly Fern, introduced into this country in
1859, from spores, by Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray, from Jamaica. ..."
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