NOUN | plant | dagger fern, Christmas fern, canker brake, evergreen wood fern, Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
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Meaning | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds. | |
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Synonyms | Christmas fern, canker brake, evergreen wood fern, Polystichum acrostichoides | |
Member of | Polystichum, genus Polystichum | small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns |
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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