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Cheilanthes eatonii

Cheilanthes eatonii

9.9
A fern with tall, upright leaves that grow in small clumps
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • In her garden, she cultivated Cheilanthes eatonii for its distinctive, tufted fronds.

Examples

  • The rocky slopes were covered with Cheilanthes eatonii, lending a delicate green hue to the landscape.

  • Botanists documented the presence of Cheilanthes eatonii in several protected areas of Arizona.

  • Look at the stunning Cheilanthes eatonii growing near the rocks!

  • I found a beautiful Cheilanthes eatonii in my garden.

  • In her garden, she cultivated Cheilanthes eatonii for its distinctive, tufted fronds.

  • The rocky slopes were covered with Cheilanthes eatonii, lending a delicate green hue to the landscape.

  • Botanists documented the presence of Cheilanthes eatonii in several protected areas of Arizona.

Synonyms

southwestern lip fern
vsCheilanthes eatonii
  • Specialized
9.9

A fern with tall upright leaves that grows in dry rocky places in the US southwest

is the formal Latin name for the same species

Surface Forms

Cheilanthes eatonii singular
Cheilanthes eatonii plural

Morphology

Cheilanthes + eatonii

This is a Latin binomial composed of the genus name Cheilanthes (a type of fern) plus the species epithet eatonii; a learner who knows the genus meaning and the convention that Latin epithets name species will readily infer it denotes a specific kind of Cheilanthes fern. Although 'eatonii' is not an English lexical item, it functions as a proper-name/species marker and does not introduce an idiomatic or non-compositional sense, so the referential meaning is predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Cheilanthes eatonii may come from Greek words and a scientist's name: Cheilanthes means 'lip', which refers to the fern's frilly, lip-like edges, and eatonii honors the botanist 'Eaton' who studied ferns. So the name points to both the plant's shape and the person who described it.