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WALL FERN
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I. (noun)
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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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wall fern" is a kind of...):
polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)