Acrostichum
noun
Acros·ti·chum
ə-ˈkrȯ-sti-kəm,
-ˈkrä-
: a genus of tropical ferns (family Polypodiaceae) with varied habit but with the sporangia covering all the underside of the frond
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, irregular from Greek akrostichis; from the arrangement of the spores on the leaflets
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined above
- elephant's-tooth
- elephant's-tooths
- elephant's-trunk plant
- elephant's-tusk
- elephant's-tusk shell
- elephant's-tusk shells
- elephant's-tusks
- elephant-ear fern
- elephant-ear sponge
- Elephanta
- elephantiases
- elephantiasis
- elephantic
- Elephantidae
- elephantidaes
- elephantine
- elephantine tortoise
- elephantopi
- elephantopus
- elephantopuses
- elephantopusses
- elephants
- Elephas
- elephases
- elephasses