CLIMBING FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does climbing fern mean? 

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

1. any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIMBING FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("climbing 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)

climber (a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "climbing fern"):

creeping fern; Hartford fern; Lygodium palmatum (delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds)

climbing maidenhair; climbing maidenhair fern; Lygodium microphyllum; snake fern (tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida)

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

genus Lygodium; Lygodium (chiefly tropical climbing ferns)