单词 | prickly shield fern |
释义 | > as lemmasprickly shield fern prickly shield fern n. any of several shield ferns of the genus Polystichum; esp. P. aculeatum of Eurasia and North Africa, which has leathery fronds and distinctive bristle-toothed pinnules. ΚΠ 1804 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica III. 1123 Aspidium... Close-leaved Prickly Shield-fern. 1945 A. B. Jackson Step's Wayside & Woodland Ferns (new. ed.) 70 The Prickly Shield-fern..at a distance may be taken for the Male-fern, for the frond is similar in shape. 2003 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 15 June (Features section) 59 The soft shield fern has overlapping leaflets which give it a moss-like appearance, and then there's the prickly shield fern or Polystichum aculeatum, which has spiny projections on its leafy midrib. < as lemmas |
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