LADY FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lady fern mean? 

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

1. most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADY FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Athyrium filix-femina; lady fern

Hypernyms ("lady 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 "lady fern"):

Alpine lady fern; Athyrium distentifolium (a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains)

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

Athyrium; genus Athyrium (temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus Asplenium)