NOUN | plant | evergreen wood fern, Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger fern, Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
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plant | evergreen wood fern, marginal wood fern, leatherleaf wood fern, Dryopteris marginalis | North American fern with evergreen fronds |
Meaning | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds. | |
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Synonyms | Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger 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 |
Meaning | North American fern with evergreen fronds. | |
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Synonyms | marginal wood fern, leatherleaf wood fern, Dryopteris marginalis | |
Broader | wood fern, wood-fern, woodfern | Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris |
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