asplenium

Meanings

Noun

in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
Synonym of spleenwort: any plant of the genus Asplenium.

Origin / Etymology

A genericization of translingual Asplenium (“the spleenworts”), from Linnaeus's New Latin adjustment of Latin asplenon (“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.

Synonyms

genus Asplenium, spleenwort

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