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CHRISTMAS FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas fern mean?
• CHRISTMAS FERN (noun)
The noun CHRISTMAS FERN has 1 sense:
1. North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
canker brake; Christmas fern; dagger fern; evergreen wood fern; Polystichum acrostichoides
Hypernyms ("Christmas 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 ("Christmas fern" is a member of...):
genus Polystichum; Polystichum (small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)
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