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    CHRISTMAS FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    canker brake; Christmas fern; dagger fern; evergreen wood fern; Polystichum acrostichoides

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

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

    genus Polystichum; Polystichum (small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)

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