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    MARSH FERN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regionsplay

    Synonyms:

    Dryopteris thelypteris; marsh fern; Thelypteris palustris

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("marsh 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 "marsh fern"):

    Dryopteris thelypteris pubescens; meadow fern; snuffbox fern; Thelypteris palustris pubescens (fern of northeastern North America)

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

    genus Thelypteris; Thelypteris (marsh ferns: in some classification systems considered part of genus Dryopteris in family Dryopteridaceae)

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