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noun
Synonym of spleenwort: any plant of the genus Asplenium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: spleenwort
Antonyms: none provided
noun
in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Asplenium
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fern genus
History
A genericization of taxonomic name Asplenium (“the spleenworts”), from Linnaeus's New Latin adjustment of Latin asplenon (“spleenwort”), from Ancient Greek ἄσπληνον (ásplēnon, “spleenwort”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ον (-on, “-um”), from its use to cure anthrax in livestock.
