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ADDER'S FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adder's fern mean?
• ADDER'S FERN (noun)
The noun ADDER'S FERN has 1 sense:
1. mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
Familiarity information: ADDER'S FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
adder's fern; common polypody; golden maidenhair; golden polypody; Polypodium vulgare; sweet fern; wall fern
Hypernyms ("adder's fern" is a kind of...):
polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)
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