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WOOLY LIP FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wooly lip fern mean?
• WOOLY LIP FERN (noun)
The noun WOOLY LIP FERN has 1 sense:
1. small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly
Familiarity information: WOOLY LIP FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("wooly 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)
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