EVERGREEN WOOD FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evergreen wood fern mean?
• EVERGREEN WOOD FERN (noun)
The noun EVERGREEN WOOD FERN has 2 senses:
1. North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
2. North American fern with evergreen fronds
Familiarity information: EVERGREEN WOOD FERN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EVERGREEN WOOD FERN (noun)
Meaning:
North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
canker brake; Christmas fern; dagger fern; evergreen wood fern; Polystichum acrostichoides
Hypernyms ("evergreen wood fern" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("evergreen wood fern" is a member of...):
genus Polystichum; Polystichum (small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)
Meaning:
North American fern with evergreen fronds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dryopteris marginalis; leatherleaf wood fern; marginal wood fern; evergreen wood fern
Hypernyms ("evergreen wood fern" is a kind of...):
wood fern; wood-fern; woodfern (any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris)
