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Definition of Thyrsopteris
1. Noun. A terrestrial tree fern of South America.
Generic synonyms: Tree Fern
Group relationships: Genus Thyrsopteris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thyrsopteris
Literary usage of Thyrsopteris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"thyrsopteris pachyrachis Fontaine, 1890, Mon. US Geol. Surv., vol. xv, 1889, p.
... thyrsopteris elliptica Fontaine, 1898, in Ward, 18th Ann. Kept. US G«ol. ..."
2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"Some of the smaller species closely resemble small plants of thyrsopteris: like
it they have leaves repeatedly pinnate, with numerous sori borne at the ..."
3. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"... two others are said to suggest the genera thyrsopteris and ... by Heer.t but
it seems best, for the present, to leave them in the genus thyrsopteris. ..."
4. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"... two others are said to suggest the genera thyrsopteris and ... by Heer.t but
it seems best, for the present, to leave them in the genus thyrsopteris. ..."
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