SERPENT FERN

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Meaning:

Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium

Synonyms:

golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("serpent 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 ("serpent fern" is a member of...):

genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)

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