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Sweet fern   /swit fərn/   Listen
Sweet fern

noun
1.
Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.  Synonyms: adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare, wall fern.
2.
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.  Synonyms: Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina.






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Words linked to "Sweet fern" :   adder's fern, shrub, polypody, bush, genus Comptonia, Comptonia



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