| NOUN | plant | woodfern, wood fern, wood-fern | any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris |
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| Meaning | Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris. | |
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| Synonyms | wood fern, wood-fern | |
| Member of | Dryopteris, genus Dryopteris | large widespread genus of medium-sized terrestrial ferns |
| Narrower | fragrant cliff fern, fragrant shield fern, fragrant wood fern, Dryopteris fragrans | fern or northern Eurasia and North America having fragrant fronds |
| male fern, Dryopteris filix-mas | fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms | |
| marginal wood fern, evergreen wood fern, leatherleaf wood fern, Dryopteris marginalis | North American fern with evergreen fronds | |
| mountain male fern, Dryopteris oreades | A fern of the genus Dryopteris | |
| 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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