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HARD FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several ferns of the genus Blechnum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hard 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hard fern"):
Blechnum spicant; deer fern (fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America; often cultivated for deer browse)
Holonyms ("hard fern" is a member of...):
Blechnum; genus Blechnum (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns)
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