curly_grass_fern (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *curly grass fern*:
NOUN	plant	curly grass fern, curly grass, Schizaea pusilla	rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts

English > *curly grass fern*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts.
Synonyms	curly grass, Schizaea pusilla
Member of	Schizaea, genus Schizaea	type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics
Broader	fern	Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward

HyperDic: curly_grass_fern