evergreen wood fern

Noun
  1. North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds (synset 113220615)
    is a type of: fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
    belongs to: genus polystichum, polystichum - small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae
    same as: canker brake, christmas fern, dagger fern, polystichum acrostichoides
  2. North American fern with evergreen fronds (synset 113214934)
    is a type of: wood fern, wood-fern, woodfern - any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris
    same as: dryopteris marginalis, leatherleaf wood fern, marginal wood fern

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