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CREEPING FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does creeping fern mean?
• CREEPING FERN (noun)
The noun CREEPING FERN has 1 sense:
1. delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds
Familiarity information: CREEPING FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
creeping fern; Hartford fern; Lygodium palmatum
Hypernyms ("creeping fern" is a kind of...):
climbing fern (any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining)
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