HAIRY LIP FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hairy lip fern mean? 

• HAIRY LIP FERN (noun)
  The noun HAIRY LIP FERN has 1 sense:

1. small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly

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

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• HAIRY LIP FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cheilanthes lanosa; hairy lip fern; wooly lip fern

Hypernyms ("hairy lip fern" is a kind of...):

lip fern; lipfern (any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions)