CHAIN FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chain fern mean? 

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

1. a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAIN FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chain 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 "chain fern"):

Virginia chain fern; Woodwardia virginica (North American fern)

Holonyms ("chain fern" is a member of...):

genus Woodwardia; Woodwardia (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns)