spleenwort
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1. any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fern, |
| definition | : | any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium adiantum-nigrum, black spleenwort, |
| definition | : | spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium platyneuron, ebony spleenwort, scott's spleenwort, |
| definition | : | common North American fern with polished black stripes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | black-stem spleenwort, black-stemmed spleenwort, little ebony spleenwort, |
| definition | : | fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium rhizophyllum, camptosorus rhizophyllus, walking fern, walking leaf, |
| definition | : | ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium trichomanes, maidenhair spleenwort, |
| definition | : | small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium viride, green spleenwort, |
| definition | : | a small fern with slim green fronds; widely distributed in cool parts of northern hemisphere (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium montanum, mountain spleenwort, |
| definition | : | a spleenwort of eastern North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium ruta-muraria, wall rue, wall rue spleenwort, |
| definition | : | small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium bradleyi, bradley's spleenwort, |
| definition | : | a spleenwort of eastern to southern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium pinnatifidum, lobed spleenwort, |
| definition | : | a spleenwort of eastern and southern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asplenium billotii, lanceolate spleenwort, |
| definition | : | a spleenwort of western Europe (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | asplenium, genus asplenium, |
| definition | : | in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae (noun.plant) |
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