BRITTLE FERN

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Meaning:

Delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems

Synonyms:

brittle bladder fern; brittle fern; Cystopteris fragilis; fragile fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("brittle fern" is a kind of...):

bladder fern (any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori)

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