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LACE FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lace fern mean?
• LACE FERN (noun)
The noun LACE FERN has 1 sense:
1. small tufted fern of northwestern America
Familiarity information: LACE FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small tufted fern of northwestern America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cheilanthes gracillima; lace fern
Hypernyms ("lace 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 ("lace fern" is a member of...):
Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes (small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)
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