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aspidium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
as-pid-i-um
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of dryopteris: a member of a certain genus of ferns, including the male fern.

Countable; Dated

noun

A vermifuge prepared from the dried male fern.

Dated; Uncountable

Etymology

A genericized form of taxonomic name Aspidium, from New Latin aspidium (“shield fern”) proposed by Schwartz in Schrader's Journal für die Botanik in 1800, from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) + -ium.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Aspidium, ἀσπίς

Usage

Inflected Forms

aspidiums (plural) aspidia (plural)

Synonyms

dryopteris

Questions

What does aspidium mean?
Synonym of dryopteris: a member of a certain genus of ferns, including the male fern.
Where does aspidium come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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