y doing the work of i
Is there an ie in dryopteris?
No. One letter, y.
y doing the work of i
ie is how English usually writes this sound at the end of a word, as in pie or tie. Inside a Greek word it never appears.
The class
A Greek upsilon, written y in English and sounding like a plain i.
Same name
Other spellings recorded for dryopteris
The name