English > spleenwort: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium. |
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| Member of | Asplenium, genus Asplenium | In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae |
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| Narrower | Bradley's spleenwort, Asplenium bradleyi | A spleenwort of eastern to southern United States |
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| black-stem spleenwort, black-stemmed spleenwort, little ebony spleenwort | fern of tropical America |
| black spleenwort, Asplenium adiantum-nigrum | spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent |
| ebony spleenwort, Scott's Spleenwort, Asplenium platyneuron | Common North American fern with polished black stripes |
| green spleenwort, Asplenium viride | A small fern with slim green fronds |
| lanceolate spleenwort, Asplenium billotii | A spleenwort of western Europe |
| lobed spleenwort, Asplenium pinnatifidum | A spleenwort of eastern and southern United States |
| maidenhair spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes | small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds |
| mountain spleenwort, Asplenium montanum | A spleenwort of eastern North America |
| walking fern, walking leaf, Asplenium rhizophyllum, Camptosorus rhizophyllus | ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip |
| wall rue, wall rue spleenwort, Asplenium ruta-muraria | small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
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