woodsia

wood·si·a  (wdz-)

n.

Any of several small tufted ferns of the genus Woodsia, having pinnately divided fronds and growing in cool rocky areas.

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[New Latin Woodsia, genus name, After Joseph Woods (1776-1864), British botanist.]

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Noun

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woodsia - any fern of the genus Woodsia fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Woodsia - genus of small to medium-sized usually rock-inhabiting ferns of temperate and cold regions; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae fragrant woodsia, oblong woodsia, rusty woodsia, Woodsia ilvensis - a common rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate regions having rusty-brown stipes and lanceolate pinnate fronds Alpine woodsia, flower-cup fern, northern woodsia, Woodsia alpina - slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori smooth woodsia, Woodsia glabella - rock-inhabiting fern of Arctic and subarctic Europe to eastern Asia