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Detailed Synonyms for sweet fern in English

sweet fern:

sweet fern [the ~] noun

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

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Related Definitions for "sweet fern":

  1. deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers1
  2. mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia1

Related Synonyms for sweet fern