scale fern

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1. small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fern,
definition	:	any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	asplenium, genus asplenium,
definition	:	in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae (noun.plant)