evergreen wood fern

English Thesaurus

1. North American fern with evergreen fronds (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	wood fern, wood-fern, woodfern,
definition	:	any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris (noun.plant)

2. North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped 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	:	genus polystichum, polystichum,
definition	:	small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae (noun.plant)