blechnum spicant

1. 1.

   fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America; often cultivated for deer browse

   Synonymsdeer fern

   Broaderhard fern

Questions about blechnum spicant

What does blechnum spicant mean?

blechnum spicant means "fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America; often cultivated for deer browse".

What is another word for blechnum spicant?

Close synonyms include deer fern. 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 blechnum spicant a common word?

blechnum spicant 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.