English Explanatory Dictionary

asplenium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of spleenwort: any plant of the genus Asplenium.

Word forms

asplenium aspleniums

Etymology

A genericization of taxonomic name Asplenium (“the spleenworts”), from Linnaeus's New Latin adjustment of Latin asplenon (“spleenwort”), from Ancient Greek ἄσπληνον (ásplēnon, “spleenwort”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ον (-on, “-um”), from its use to cure anthrax in livestock.

Synonyms

spleenwort
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