Definition of Goniopteris

1. Noun. Terrestrial ferns of Florida and West Indies to Central and South America.

Exact synonyms: Genus Goniopteris
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goniopteris

Gomphrena globosa
Goncharovian
Goncourt
Gond
Gondi
Gondwana
Gondwanaland
Gondwanalandic
Gongora
Gongorism
Gongorist
Gongylonema
Gongylonema ingluvicola
Gongylonema neoplasticum
Gongylonema pulchrum
Goniopteris (current term)
Gonne
Gonorhynchidae
Gonorhynchus
Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus
Gonyaulax catanella
Good Book
Good Friday
Good Fridays
Good King Henry
Good Samaritan
Good Samaritan law
Good Samaritan laws
Good Samaritans
Good Shepherd

Literary usage of Goniopteris

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 (1864)
"P. (Goniopteris) costatum, Hook. ; caudex ?, stipes ?, frond 3 feet long a foot and more wide ovato-oblong acuminate coriaceous dark-brown when dry with a ..."

2. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"The lines between Phegopteris and Dryopteris and between Goniopteris and ... and Goniopteris, with the fronds sub- dimorphous. ..."

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