asplenium

A genericization of translingual Asplenium (“the spleenworts”), from Linnaeus's New Latin adjustment of Latin asplenon (“spleenwort”), from Ancient Greek ἄσπληνον (ásplēnon, “spleenwort”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ον (-on, “-um”), from its use to cure anthrax in livestock.

• Rhymes: -iːniəm

asplenium (plural aspleniums)

1. (botany) Synonym of spleenwort: any plant of the genus Asplenium.

• “spleenwort, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
• “Asplenium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Emu Plains, unimpales

Linnaeus's adjustment of asplēnon (“spleenwort”), from Ancient Greek ἄσπληνον (ásplēnon).

asplēnium n (genitive asplēniī); second declension

1. (New Latin) a spleenwort
2. (New Latin) the spleenworts collectively

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Translingual: Asplenium