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POLYSTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Polystichum acrostichoides mean? 

POLYSTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES (noun)
  The noun POLYSTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: POLYSTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES used as a noun is very rare.


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POLYSTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES (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 ("Polystichum acrostichoides" 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 ("Polystichum acrostichoides" is a member of...):

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


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