Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Woodwardia \Wood*war"di*a\, n. [NL. After Thomas J. Woodward, an
   English botanist.] (Bot.)
   A genus of ferns, one species of which ({Woodwardia
   radicans}) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.

Source : WordNet®

Woodwardia
     n : in some classification systems placed in family
         Polypodiaceae: chain ferns [syn: {genus Woodwardia}]