Definition of Scolopendrium

1. Noun. A fern thought to resemble a millipede.

Generic synonyms: Fern

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolopendrium

scoliotic pelvis
scoliotone
scolithi
scolithus
scollop
scolloped
scolloping
scollops
scolopacid
scolopacids
scolopacine
scolopendra
scolopendras
scolopendrine
scolopendrism
scolopendrium (current term)
scolytid
scolytids
scomber
scomberoid
scombral
scombrid
scombrids
scombriformes
scombroid
scombroid fish
scombroid poisoning
scombroids
scomfish
scomfished

Literary usage of Scolopendrium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1804)
"scolopendrium Ceterach. Sm. Fl. Brit. 1134. Sym. 193. Roth. Germ. v. 3. 48. ... -L/ESS frequent than the other British scolopendrium represented in our t. ..."

2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"scolopendrium.—HART-S-TONGUE. scolopendrium vulgare Smith.—Hart-s-Tongue. Description. ... scolopendrium is one of the unimportant remedies much ..."

3. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1862)
"The chief distinctions depend on I have ventured to unite under one genus scolopendrium, Sm., ... scolopendrium, Sm. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. LVII. ..."

4. A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns: Containing Species and Varieties by Edward Joseph Lowe (1865)
"Length of frond from nine to twelve inches. My thanks are due to Mr. C. Monkman, of Malton, for the frond illustrated. scolopendrium VULGARE, VARIETY ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1861)
"I will commence my remarks with a few of those which require the temperature of the green-house, prominent among which is the scolopendrium, or Hart's ..."

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