black-stemmed spleenwort

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   fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil

   Synonymsblack-stem spleenwortlittle ebony spleenwort

   Broaderspleenwort

Questions about black-stemmed spleenwort

What does black-stemmed spleenwort mean?

black-stemmed spleenwort means "fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil".

What is another word for black-stemmed spleenwort?

Close synonyms include black-stem spleenwort, little ebony spleenwort. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black-stemmed spleenwort a common word?

black-stemmed spleenwort is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.