Alsophila
noun
Al·soph·i·la
alˈsäfələ
1
: a large genus of tree ferns (family Cyatheaceae) found in tropical mountainous regions having ample finely divided fronds bearing naked sori
2
alsophila plural alsophilas : a fern of the genus Alsophila
3
: a genus of geometrid moths having wingless females and green-striped larvae that are loopers and include the common destructive fall cankerworm
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek alsos grove + New Latin -phila; akin to Greek aldēskein to grow
First Known Use
1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- rhythmises
- rhythmising
- rhythmist
- rhythmists
- rhythmizable
- rhythmization
- rhythmizations
- rhythmize
- rhythmized
- rhythmizes
- rhythmizing
- rhythmless
- rhythmologist
- rhythmometers
- rhythmopeia
- rhythmopoeia
- rhythms
- rhythmus
- rhytidectomies
- Rhytidodon
- rhytidome
- rhytidomes
- rhytidoplasties
- rhytidoplastyes
- rhytidoplastys