hairy lip fern

/ˌhɛri lɪp fərn/
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Definitions of hairy lip fern
  1. noun
    small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly
    synonyms: Cheilanthes lanosa, wooly lip fern
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    type of:
    lip fern, lipfern
    any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions
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