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SCALY FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scaly fern mean? 

SCALY FERN (noun)
  The noun SCALY FERN has 1 sense:

1. small European fern with chaffy leathery frondsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SCALY FERN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asplenium ceterach; Ceterach officinarum; scale fern; scaly fern

Hypernyms ("scaly 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 ("scaly fern" is a member of...):

Asplenium; genus Asplenium (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)


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