ANNUAL FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annual fern mean? 

• ANNUAL FERN (noun)
  The noun ANNUAL FERN has 1 sense:

1. small short-lived fern of Central and South America

  Familiarity information: ANNUAL FERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNUAL FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small short-lived fern of Central and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

annual fern; Anogramma leptophylla; Jersey fern

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

Anogramma; genus Anogramma (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Pteridaceae)