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    LIP FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regionsplay

    Synonyms:

    lip fern; lipfern

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("lip 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 "lip fern"):

    Alabama lip fern; Cheilanthes alabamensis; smooth lip fern (southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica)

    Cheilanthes lanosa; hairy lip fern; wooly lip fern (small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly)

    Cheilanthes eatonii; southwestern lip fern (lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds)

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

    Cheilanthes; genus Cheilanthes (small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

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