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    SERPENT FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodiumplay

    Synonyms:

    golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("serpent 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 ("serpent fern" is a member of...):

    genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)

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