ADDER'S FERN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

Synonyms:

adder's fern; common polypody; golden maidenhair; golden polypody; Polypodium vulgare; sweet fern; wall fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("adder's fern" is a kind of...):

polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)

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