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CLIMBING FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("climbing 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)
climber (a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "climbing fern"):
creeping fern; Hartford fern; Lygodium palmatum (delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds)
climbing maidenhair; climbing maidenhair fern; Lygodium microphyllum; snake fern (tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida)
Holonyms ("climbing fern" is a member of...):
genus Lygodium; Lygodium (chiefly tropical climbing ferns)
