LADY FERN

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Meaning:

Most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage

Synonyms:

Athyrium filix-femina; lady fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lady 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 "lady fern"):

Alpine lady fern; Athyrium distentifolium (a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains)

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

Athyrium; genus Athyrium (temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus Asplenium)