SENSITIVE FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensitive fern mean? 

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

1. beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSITIVE FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bead fern; Onoclea sensibilis; sensitive fern

Hypernyms ("sensitive 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 ("sensitive fern" is a member of...):

genus Onoclea; Onoclea (one species: sensitive fern; in some classifications included in Polypodiaceae)