HyperDic: oak_fern

English > 1 sense of the expression oak fern:
NOUNplantoak fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, Thelypteris dryopterisbright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere
English > oak fern: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningbright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere.
SynonymsGymnocarpium dryopteris, Thelypteris dryopteris
Member ofGymnocarpium, genus Gymnocarpiumoak ferns
BroaderfernAny of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward

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