| NOUN | plant | lipfern, lip fern | any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes |
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| Meaning | Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions. | |
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| Synonym | lip fern | |
| Member of | Cheilanthes, genus Cheilanthes | small evergreen ferns |
| Narrower | smooth lip fern, Alabama lip fern, Cheilanthes alabamensis | southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica |
| southwestern lip fern, Cheilanthes eatonii | lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds | |
| wooly lip fern, hairy lip fern, Cheilanthes lanosa | small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly | |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
| Spanish | lipfern | |
| Catalan | lipfern | |
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