| NOUN | plant | Polystichum acrostichoides, Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger fern, evergreen wood fern | 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, dagger fern, evergreen wood fern | |
| 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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