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    LADY FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliageplay

    Synonyms:

    Athyrium filix-femina; lady fern

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("lady 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)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lady fern"):

    Alpine lady fern; Athyrium distentifolium (a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains)

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

    Athyrium; genus Athyrium (temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus Asplenium)

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