EVERGREEN WOOD FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evergreen wood fern mean? 

• EVERGREEN WOOD FERN (noun)
  The noun EVERGREEN WOOD FERN has 2 senses:

1. North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds

2. North American fern with evergreen fronds

  Familiarity information: EVERGREEN WOOD FERN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERGREEN WOOD FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

canker brake; Christmas fern; dagger fern; evergreen wood fern; Polystichum acrostichoides

Hypernyms ("evergreen wood 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 ("evergreen wood fern" is a member of...):

genus Polystichum; Polystichum (small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American fern with evergreen fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dryopteris marginalis; evergreen wood fern; leatherleaf wood fern; marginal wood fern

Hypernyms ("evergreen wood fern" is a kind of...):

wood-fern; wood fern; woodfern (any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris)