SPLEENWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spleenwort mean? 

• SPLEENWORT (noun)
  The noun SPLEENWORT has 1 sense:

1. any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium

  Familiarity information: SPLEENWORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLEENWORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("spleenwort" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spleenwort"):

Asplenium adiantum-nigrum; black spleenwort (spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent)

Asplenium platyneuron; ebony spleenwort; Scott's Spleenwort (common North American fern with polished black stripes)

black-stem spleenwort; black-stemmed spleenwort; little ebony spleenwort (fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil)

Asplenium rhizophyllum; Camptosorus rhizophyllus; walking fern; walking leaf (ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip)

Asplenium trichomanes; maidenhair spleenwort (small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds)

Asplenium viride; green spleenwort (a small fern with slim green fronds; widely distributed in cool parts of northern hemisphere)

Asplenium montanum; mountain spleenwort (a spleenwort of eastern North America)

Asplenium ruta-muraria; wall rue; wall rue spleenwort (small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America)

Asplenium bradleyi; Bradley's spleenwort (a spleenwort of eastern to southern United States)

Asplenium pinnatifidum; lobed spleenwort (a spleenwort of eastern and southern United States)

Asplenium billotii; lanceolate spleenwort (a spleenwort of western Europe)

Holonyms ("spleenwort" is a member of...):

Asplenium; genus Asplenium (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)