scolopendrium [skɒləˈpɛndrɪəm]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for hart's-tongue
[from New Latin, from Greek scolopendrion, from a fancied resemblance of the fern and its sori to a centipede]
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| Noun | 1. |  scolopendrium - a fern thought to resemble a millipedefern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores |
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