LIPFERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lipfern mean? 

• LIPFERN (noun)
  The noun LIPFERN has 1 sense:

1. any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions

  Familiarity information: LIPFERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIPFERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

lip fern; lipfern

Hypernyms ("lipfern" 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 "lipfern"):

Alabama lip fern; Cheilanthes alabamensis; smooth lip fern (southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica)

Cheilanthes lanosa; hairy lip fern; wooly lip fern (small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly)

Cheilanthes eatonii; southwestern lip fern (lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds)

Holonyms ("lipfern" is a member of...):

Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes (small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)