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wall rue

noun

  1. a small, delicate fern, Asplenium rutamuraria, having fan-shaped leaflets and growing on walls and cliffs.


wall rue

noun

  1. a delicate fern, Asplenium ruta-muraria, that grows in rocky crevices and walls in North America and Eurasia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wall rue1

First recorded in 1540–50
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Example Sentences

On some of the churchyard tombstones wall-rue may be found growing, a rare sight in this neighbourhood.

The Wall Rue is really a very common Fern, but it is often overlooked when hiding in the dark crevice of some old wall.

On the base of one which has a sculptured shaft the wall-rue fern was growing.

Nine species are found in Britain, among them the well-known Wall-rue.

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