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evergreen wood fern

DEFINITIONS OF: evergreen wood fern

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n North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds

Synonyms:
Christmas fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, canker brake, dagger fern
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

n North American fern with evergreen fronds

Synonyms:
Dryopteris marginalis, leatherleaf wood fern, marginal wood fern
Type of:
wood fern, wood-fern, woodfern
any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris
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