genus onychium

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   small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae

   SynonymsOnychium

   Broaderfern genus

   Part ofPteridaceae

Questions about genus onychium

What does genus onychium mean?

genus onychium means "small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae".

What is another word for genus onychium?

Close synonyms include Onychium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus onychium a common word?

genus onychium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.