Asplenium

See also: asplénium

Translingual
Asplenium scolopendrium

Etymology

From New Latin asplenium (“the spleenworts”), Linnaeus's adjustment of Latin asplenum (“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.

Proper noun

Asplenium n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Aspleniaceae – the spleenworts and similar ferns.

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