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HAY-SCENTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hay-scented mean?
• HAY-SCENTED (noun)
The noun HAY-SCENTED has 1 sense:
1. fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay
Familiarity information: HAY-SCENTED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
boulder fern; Dennstaedtia punctilobula; hay-scented; hay-scented fern; scented fern
Hypernyms ("hay-scented" 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)
Holonyms ("hay-scented" is a member of...):
Dennstaedtia; genus Dennstaedtia (chiefly terrestrial ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)
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