woodwardia

WORDNET DICTIONARY

woodwardia(n = noun.plant) genus woodwardia - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns;

is a kind of fern genus

is a member of blechnaceae, family blechnaceae

woodwardia, n. [NL. After Thomas J. Woodward, an English botanist.].

A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc. [1913 Webster]