HARTFORD FERN

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Meaning:

Delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds

Synonyms:

creeping fern; Hartford fern; Lygodium palmatum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

climbing fern (any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining)

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