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FLOWER-CUP FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flower-cup fern mean?
• FLOWER-CUP FERN (noun)
The noun FLOWER-CUP FERN has 1 sense:
1. slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori
Familiarity information: FLOWER-CUP FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Alpine woodsia; flower-cup fern; northern woodsia; Woodsia alpina
Hypernyms ("flower-cup fern" is a kind of...):
woodsia (any fern of the genus Woodsia)
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