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    WOOD-FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopterisplay

    Synonyms:

    wood-fern; wood fern; woodfern

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("wood-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 "wood-fern"):

    Dryopteris fragrans; fragrant cliff fern; fragrant shield fern; fragrant wood fern (fern or northern Eurasia and North America having fragrant fronds)

    Dryopteris filix-mas; male fern (fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms)

    Dryopteris marginalis; evergreen wood fern; leatherleaf wood fern; marginal wood fern (North American fern with evergreen fronds)

    Dryopteris oreades; mountain male fern (a fern of the genus Dryopteris)

    Holonyms ("wood-fern" is a member of...):

    Dryopteris; genus Dryopteris (large widespread genus of medium-sized terrestrial ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae)

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