LACE FERN

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Meaning:

Small tufted fern of northwestern America

Synonyms:

Cheilanthes gracillima; lace fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("lace fern" is a member of...):

Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes (small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

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