AMERICAN PARSLEY FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American parsley fern mean? 

• AMERICAN PARSLEY FERN (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN PARSLEY FERN has 1 sense:

1. rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN PARSLEY FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American parsley fern; American rock brake; Cryptogramma acrostichoides

Hypernyms ("American parsley fern" is a kind of...):

rock brake (dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns)

Holonyms ("American parsley fern" is a member of...):

Cryptogramma; genus Cryptogramma (sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae)