ceterach officinarum

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   small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

   Synonymsscale fernscaly fernAsplenium ceterach

   Broaderfern

   Part ofAsplenium

Questions about ceterach officinarum

What does ceterach officinarum mean?

ceterach officinarum means "small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds".

What is another word for ceterach officinarum?

Close synonyms include scale fern, scaly fern, Asplenium ceterach. 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 ceterach officinarum a common word?

ceterach officinarum 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.