sweet fern
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 • Syn: common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare • Hypernyms: polypody 2. deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers • Syn: Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Member Holonyms: Comptonia, genus Comptonia
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