climbing fern

/klaɪmɪŋ fərn/

Other forms: climbing ferns

Definitions of climbing fern

1. noun

   any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining
   types:

   Hartford fern, Lygodium palmatum, creeping fern

   delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds

   Lygodium microphyllum, climbing maidenhair, climbing maidenhair fern, snake fern

   tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida

   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

   climber

   a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants