chain fern

1. 1.

   a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows

   Broaderfern

   NarrowerVirginia chain fern

   Part ofWoodwardia

Questions about chain fern

What does chain fern mean?

chain fern means "a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows".

Is chain fern a common word?

chain 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.