SWEET FERN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

Synonyms:

Comptonia asplenifolia; Comptonia peregrina; sweet fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sweet fern" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

Comptonia; genus Comptonia (one species: sweet fern)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

Synonyms:

adder's fern; common polypody; golden maidenhair; golden polypody; Polypodium vulgare; sweet fern; wall fern