WALL FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wall fern mean? 

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

1. mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALL FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

adder's fern; common polypody; golden maidenhair; golden polypody; Polypodium vulgare; sweet fern; wall fern

Hypernyms ("wall fern" is a kind of...):

polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)