Woodwardia

Wood`war´di`a

n.

1.

(Bot.) A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Woodwardia - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns genus Woodwardia fern genus - genera of ferns and fern allies Blechnaceae, family Blechnaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia chain fern - a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows