WOODFERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodfern mean? 

• WOODFERN (noun)
  The noun WOODFERN has 1 sense:

1. any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris

  Familiarity information: WOODFERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODFERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

wood-fern; wood fern; woodfern

Hypernyms ("woodfern" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodfern"):

Dryopteris fragrans; fragrant cliff fern; fragrant shield fern; fragrant wood fern (fern or northern Eurasia and North America having fragrant fronds)

Dryopteris filix-mas; male fern (fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms)

Dryopteris marginalis; evergreen wood fern; leatherleaf wood fern; marginal wood fern (North American fern with evergreen fronds)

Dryopteris oreades; mountain male fern (a fern of the genus Dryopteris)

Holonyms ("woodfern" is a member of...):

Dryopteris; genus Dryopteris (large widespread genus of medium-sized terrestrial ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)