MARSH FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marsh fern mean? 

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

1. fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARSH FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dryopteris thelypteris; marsh fern; Thelypteris palustris

Hypernyms ("marsh 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 "marsh fern"):

Dryopteris thelypteris pubescens; meadow fern; snuffbox fern; Thelypteris palustris pubescens (fern of northeastern North America)

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

genus Thelypteris; Thelypteris (marsh ferns: in some classification systems considered part of genus Dryopteris in family Dryopteridaceae)