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Chiefly tropical climbing ferns
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lygodium
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lygodium ( climbing fern ) is a genus of about 40 species of ferns , native to tropical regions across the world, with a few temperate species in eastern Asia and eastern North America . It is the sole genus in the family Lygodiaceae , though included in ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lygodium \Ly*go"di*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? flexible; ? a willow twig + e'i^dos form.] (Bot.) A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs. Note: Lygodium palmatum , much prized for indoor ...
Usage examples of lygodium.
And lower down the great forest trees arch over it, and the sunbeams trickle through them, and dance in many a quiet pool, turning the far-down sands to gold, brightening majestic tree-ferns, and shining on the fragile polypodium tamariscinum which clings tremblingly to the branches of the graceful waringhan, on a beautiful lygodium which adorns the uncouth trunk of an artocarpus, on glossy ginger-worts and trailing yams, on climbers and epiphytes, and on gigantic lianas which, climbing to the tops of the tallest trees, descend in vast festoons, many of them with orange and scarlet flowers and fruitage, passing from tree to tree, and interlacing the forest with a living network, while selaginellas and lindsayas, and film ferns, and trichomanes radicans drape the rocks in feathery green, along with mosses scarcely distinguishable from ferns.