woodsia

wood·si·a

W0213200 (wo͝od′zē-ə)n. Any of several small ferns of the genus Woodsia, having pinnately divided fronds and growing in clusters in cool rocky areas.

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[New Latin Woodsia, genus name, after Joseph Woods (1776-1864), British botanist.]

woodsia

(ˈwʊdzɪə) n (Plants) any small fern of the genus Woodsia, of temperate and cold regions, having tufted rhizomes and numerous wiry fronds: family Polypodiaceae

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woodsia - any fern of the genus Woodsia fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesgenus Woodsia - genus of small to medium-sized usually rock-inhabiting ferns of temperate and cold regions; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceaefragrant woodsia, oblong woodsia, rusty woodsia, Woodsia ilvensis - a common rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate regions having rusty-brown stipes and lanceolate pinnate frondsAlpine woodsia, flower-cup fern, northern woodsia, Woodsia alpina - slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sorismooth woodsia, Woodsia glabella - rock-inhabiting fern of Arctic and subarctic Europe to eastern Asia