[spleen-wurt, -wawrt] 
| any of various temperate and tropical ferns of the genera Asplenium and Diplazium, certain species of which are grown as ornamentals. |
| spleen·wort (splēn'wûrt', -wôrt') n. Any of numerous widely distributed evergreen ferns of the genus Asplenium, having undivided to featherlike fronds and oblong to linear sori located on the small veins. [So called because it was thought to cure spleen disorders.] |
