OAK FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oak fern mean? 

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

1. bright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OAK FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Bright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gymnocarpium dryopteris; oak fern; Thelypteris dryopteris

Hypernyms ("oak 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)

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

genus Gymnocarpium; Gymnocarpium (oak ferns: in some classification systems included in genus Thelypteris)