BLADDER FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bladder fern mean? 

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

1. any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLADDER FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bladder 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bladder fern"):

brittle bladder fern; brittle fern; Cystopteris fragilis; fragile fern (delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems)

Cystopteris montana; mountain bladder fern (fern of rocky mountainous areas of hemisphere)

berry fern; bulblet bladder fern; bulblet fern; Cystopteris bulbifera (North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets)

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

Cystopteris; genus Cystopteris (chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae)