SHIELD FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shield fern mean? 

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

1. any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIELD FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buckler fern; shield fern

Hypernyms ("shield 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 "shield fern"):

broad buckler-fern; Dryopteris dilatata (European shield fern)

Dryopteris goldiana; Goldie's fern; Goldie's shield fern; goldie's wood fern (North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe)

Polystichum setiferum; soft shield fern (European shield fern cultivated in many varieties)

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

Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)