boulder fern

What does boulder fern mean?

boulder fern means "fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay".

What is another word for boulder fern?

Close synonyms include hay-scented, hay-scented fern, scented fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula. 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 boulder fern a common word?

boulder fern 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boulder fern come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.