BROAD BUCKLER-FERN

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Meaning:

European shield fern

Synonyms:

broad buckler-fern; Dryopteris dilatata

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("broad buckler-fern" is a kind of...):

buckler fern; shield fern (any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori)

Holonyms ("broad buckler-fern" is a member of...):

Dryopteris; genus Dryopteris (large widespread genus of medium-sized terrestrial ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)

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