HyperDic: adder[s_fern

English > 1 sense of the expression *adder's fern*:
NOUN	plant	adder's fern, common polypody, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare	mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks / rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

English > *adder's fern*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks / rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.
Synonyms	common polypody, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare
Broader	polypody	Any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium