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Aspidium acrostichoides
Christmas Christ"mas, n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. Christmas box. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. Christmas day. Same as Christmas. Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.
Aspidium marginale
Male Male, a. [F. m[^a]le, OF. masle, mascle, fr. L. masculus male, masculine, dim. of mas a male; possibly akin to E. man. Cf. Masculine, Marry, v. t.] 1. Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs. 2. (Bot.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them. 3. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage. 4. Consisting of males; as, a male choir. 5. (Mech.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc. Male berry (Bot.), a kind of coffee. See Pea berry. Male fern (Bot.), a fern of the genus Aspidium (A. Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in America, and A. athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female. Male rhyme, a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female. Male screw (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw. Male thread, the thread of a male screw.

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- About 200, see text. Synonyms Aenigmopteris Holttum Amphiblestra C.Presl Aspidium Sw. Bathmium (C. Presl) Link Camptodium Fée Cardiochlaena Fée Chlamydogramme...
- families of the clade. Nephrolepis biserrata (Sw.) Schott. (syn. Aspidium bisseratum Sw., Aspidium acutum Schkuhr, Nephrolepis acuta (Schkuhr) C. Presl, Polypodium...
- vegetable. Aspidium a****inatum Willd. Aspidium acutum Schkuhr Aspidium biserratum Sw. Aspidium ensifolium Schkuhr Aspidium guineense Schumach. Aspidium punctulatum...
- bi-pinnate, glossy, dark green fronds. Aspidium aculeatum var. pallescens Franch. Aspidium luctuosum Kunze Aspidium tsus-simense Hook. Polystichum falcilobum...
- Polystichum acrostichoides, commonly denominated Christmas fern, is a perennial, evergreen fern native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west...
- name Cyrtomium falcatum (L.f.) C.Presl Synonyms Polypodium falcatum L.f. Aspidium falcatum (L.f.) Sw. Dryopteris falcata (L.f.) ****ze Polystichum falcatum...
- cordifolia (L.) K. Presl Synonyms Aspidium cordifolium (L.) Sw. Aspidium pendulum (Raddi) Aspidium tuberosum Bory ex Willd Aspidium volubile (Sm.) F.M.Bailey...
- Gymnocarpium oyamense (Baker) Ching Synonyms List Aspidium crameri Christ Aspidium gymnogrammoides (Baker) Christ Aspidium krameri (Franch. & Sav.) Christ Carpogymnia...
- Aspidium Filix Mas (Shield Fern)...
- Bory Phegopteris dryopteris (L.) Fée Thelypteris dryopteris (L.) Sloss. Aspidium dryopteris Baumg. Carpogymnia dryopteris (L.) Á. Löve & D. Löve Currania...