brittle fern

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   delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems

   Synonymsbrittle bladder fernfragile fernCystopteris fragilis

   Broaderbladder fern

Questions about brittle fern

What does brittle fern mean?

brittle fern means "delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems".

What is another word for brittle fern?

Close synonyms include brittle bladder fern, fragile fern, Cystopteris fragilis. 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 brittle fern a common word?

brittle 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.