| NOUN | plant | buckler fern, shield fern | any of various ferns of the genera ... / genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori |
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| Meaning | Any of various ferns of the genera ... / genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori. | |
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| Synonym | shield fern | |
| Member of | Dryopteridaceae, family Dryopteridaceae, Athyriaceae, family Athyriaceae | Alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems |
| Narrower | Goldie's fern, Goldie's shield fern, goldie's wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana | North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe |
| broad buckler-fern, Dryopteris dilatata | European shield fern | |
| soft shield fern, Polystichum setiferum | European shield fern cultivated in many varieties | |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
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