Meaning | Any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining. |
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Member of | Lygodium, genus Lygodium | chiefly tropical climbing ferns |
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Narrower | climbing maidenhair, climbing maidenhair fern, snake fern, Lygodium microphyllum | Tropical fern widespread in Old World |
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creeping fern, Hartford fern, Lygodium palmatum | Delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds |
Broader | climber | A vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants |
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fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |