COFFEE FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coffee fern mean? 

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

1. evergreen fern of California and Baja California

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COFFEE FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen fern of California and Baja California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

coffee fern; Pellaea andromedifolia

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

cliff-brake; cliff brake; rock brake (any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions)

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

genus Pellaea; Pellaea (genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)