SERPENT FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serpent fern mean? 

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

1. tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERPENT FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern

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

genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)