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单词 wall rue
释义

wall rue


noun

a small, delicate fern, Asplenium rutamuraria, having fan-shaped leaflets and growing on walls and cliffs.

Origin of wall rue

First recorded in 1540–50

Words nearby wall rue

wall plate, wall plug, wallposter, wall rock, wall rocket, wall rue, Wallsend, Walls have ears, Wall Street, Wall Streeter, wall system
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Example sentences from the Web for wall rue

  • On the base of one which has a sculptured shaft the wall-rue fern was growing.

    Field and Hedgerow|Richard Jefferies
  • Nine species are found in Britain, among them the well-known Wall-rue.

    The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2|Various

British Dictionary definitions for wall rue

wall rue

noun

a delicate fern, Asplenium ruta-muraria, that grows in rocky crevices and walls in North America and Eurasia
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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