NORTHERN WOODSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northern woodsia mean? 

• NORTHERN WOODSIA (noun)
  The noun NORTHERN WOODSIA has 1 sense:

1. slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori

  Familiarity information: NORTHERN WOODSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHERN WOODSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alpine woodsia; flower-cup fern; northern woodsia; Woodsia alpina

Hypernyms ("northern woodsia" is a kind of...):

woodsia (any fern of the genus Woodsia)