Definition of Onoclea

1. Noun. One species: sensitive fern; in some classifications included in Polypodiaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Onoclea

Ondine
Ondine's curse
Ondiri disease
Onega
Oneida
Oneidas
Onions
Oniscidae
Oniscus
Onley
Onmyodo
Ono
Onobrychis
Onobrychis viciaefolia
Onobrychis viciifolia
Onoclea
Onoclea sensibilis
Onoclea struthiopteris
Onodi
Onodi cell
Onondaga
Onondagas
Ononis
Ononis repens
Ononis spinosa
Onopordon
Onopordon acanthium
Onopordum
Onopordum acanthium
Onosmodium

Literary usage of Onoclea

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

1. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1862)
"onoclea, Metten. onoclea and STRUTHIOPTERIS of recent authors. (onoclea, HOOK. GEN. ... onoclea obtusiloba, Schk. Fil.p. 95. t. 103. Pursh, Am. ii. p. 665. ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"This happened in the cases of onoclea Struthiopteris J and Selaginella mentioned ... Experimental Proof in onoclea Struthiopteris. The mature sporophylls of ..."

3. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"... onoclea SENSIBILIS. Native of North America, Florida, and the variety O. obtusiloba in Pennsylvania. Was known in England as early as 1699, ..."

4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"... and in any position is one of the prettiest plants. There is a white variety, not so pretty as the blue kind. onoclea (Sensitive Fern}. ..."

5. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"Note on onoclea sensibilis. Perhaps it will be interesting to some of the readers of' The Phytologist' to know that onoclea sensibilis grows in an old ..."

6. The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession by James William; Dawson (1888)
"... deposed from the high position they held in the Palaeozoic, they still existed; and there are more especially FIG. \c,T.—onoclea sensibilis. Eocene. ..."

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