Definition of "spleenwort" []

• Any of numerous widely distributed evergreen ferns of the genus Asplenium, having undivided to featherlike fronds and oblong to linear sori located on the small veins. (noun)

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• "Farmsteads and hamlets are protected by old walls from which spleenwort and polypody ferns grow."
• "Swelling emerald mosses protrude between vertical groves of fern and spleenwort."
• "Foxgloves, bright polypody ferns and rushes thrive in the hollows of surface tin workings while wheel pits, settling tanks and buddles associated with the extraction of tin and china clay are masked by scrub, and the derelict structures colonised by spleenwort ferns and moss."