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SCALY FERN

Dictionary entry overview: What does scaly fern mean?

• SCALY FERN (noun)
The noun SCALY FERN has 1 sense:

1. small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

Familiarity information: SCALY FERN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SCALY FERN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asplenium ceterach; Ceterach officinarum; scale fern; scaly fern

Hypernyms ("scaly 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 ("scaly fern" is a member of...):

Asplenium; genus Asplenium (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)

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