NOUN
- large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae
How To Use Pteris In A Sentence
- A rare comma butterfly was spotted in the garden in Grassington of lepidopterist James Birdsall.
- When H. Kulzer was employed as preparator in 1920, the collection was cared for firstly by a coleopterist.
- These are fiddleheads, the young shoots of the ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, and the cinnamon fern, Osmunda cinnamonum.
- Look at Caryopteris, Ceanothus 'Blue Cushion', Ceratostigma and Hibiscus 'Blue Bird', or buddleias 'Black Knight' (an inky blue) or 'Lochinch' (sky blue), or perennials Veronica 'Shirley Blue' and Perovskia 'Blue Spire'. Stumped? Tulips and blue plants
- A group of evergreen ferns such as Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata', the hard fern Blechnum spicant and the hart's tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium would look great through winter, and you could interplant these with primroses, so you get early spring flowers peeping out among them, like a little spring woodland floor scene. Stumped? Acers, plus shady window boxes
- A magnificent convolvulus hawk moth was spotted by the Suffolk lepidopterists gliding in downriver along their bank. Wildwood
- Pteris (lacida) foliis pinnatis., pinnulis ovato - lanceolatis crenulato-serr7itis riitidis petiola - tis, basi inaequalibus. Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas
- Ceratopteris spores, like fucoid zygotes, divide unequally to produce a small rhizoid cell and a larger cell that develops into the thallus.
- We can't flood the world with crash-hot field coleopterists to find all the unknown beetle species. Times, Sunday Times
- E. P. Austin, who was in the mining business, was an amateur coleopterist and published several papers on beetles in the course of the next few years, but he was not active in the Club after 1882.