DAGGER FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dagger fern mean? 

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

1. North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAGGER FERN (noun)

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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 ("dagger 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 ("dagger fern" is a member of...):

genus Polystichum; Polystichum (small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)