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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 fronds
Familiarity information: SCALY FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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