broad beech fern

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   beech fern of North American woodlands having straw-colored stripes

   Synonymssouthern beech fernPhegopteris hexagonopteraDryopteris hexagonopteraThelypteris hexagonoptera

   Broaderbeech fern

Questions about broad beech fern

What does broad beech fern mean?

broad beech fern means "beech fern of North American woodlands having straw-colored stripes".

What is another word for broad beech fern?

Close synonyms include southern beech fern, Phegopteris hexagonoptera, Dryopteris hexagonoptera, Thelypteris hexagonoptera. 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 broad beech fern a common word?

broad beech 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.