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LIP FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions
Synonyms:
lip fern; lipfern
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lip 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 "lip fern"):
Alabama lip fern; Cheilanthes alabamensis; smooth lip fern (southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica)
Cheilanthes lanosa; hairy lip fern; wooly lip fern (small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly)
Cheilanthes eatonii; southwestern lip fern (lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds)
Holonyms ("lip fern" is a member of...):
Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes (small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)
