Definition of Genus Onychium

1. Noun. Small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae.

Exact synonyms: Onychium
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Onychium

genus Olfersia
genus Oligoplites
genus Oligoporus
genus Ommastrephes
genus Omphalotus
genus Onchorynchus
genus Oncidium
genus Ondatra
genus Oniscus
genus Onobrychis
genus Onoclea
genus Ononis
genus Onopordon
genus Onopordum
genus Onosmodium
genus Onychium (current term)
genus Onychogalea
genus Onychomys
genus Opheodrys
genus Ophiodon
genus Ophioglossum
genus Ophiophagus
genus Ophisaurus
genus Ophrys
genus Opisthocomus
genus Opuntia
genus Orbignya
genus Orchestia
genus Orchis
genus Orcinus

Literary usage of Genus Onychium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"THE genus Onychium is small, and although Fee in his "Genres de la Famille ... of the fertile fronds have induced botanists to form a genus Onychium. ..."

2. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"... modem genus Onychium has several widely distributed, chiefly tropical, species of Japan. China, India, Persia, Abyssinia, and the East and West Indies. ..."

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