SCALE FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scale fern mean? 

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

1. small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALE FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asplenium ceterach; Ceterach officinarum; scale fern; scaly fern

Hypernyms ("scale 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)

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

Asplenium; genus Asplenium (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)