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LADY FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage
Synonyms:
Athyrium filix-femina; lady fern
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lady 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lady fern"):
Alpine lady fern; Athyrium distentifolium (a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains)
Holonyms ("lady fern" is a member of...):
Athyrium; genus Athyrium (temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus Asplenium)
