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HARD FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hard fern mean? 

HARD FERN (noun)
  The noun HARD FERN has 1 sense:

1. any of several ferns of the genus Blechnumplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HARD FERN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several ferns of the genus Blechnum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hard 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 "hard fern"):

Blechnum spicant; deer fern (fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America; often cultivated for deer browse)

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

Blechnum; genus Blechnum (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns)


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