Onychium

onychium

(ɒˈnɪkɪəm) n (Plants) a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics

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Onychium - small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceaegenus Onychiumfern genus - genera of ferns and fern alliesfamily Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided