dryopteris filix-mas

1. 1.

   fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms

   Synonymsmale fern

   Broaderwood fern

Questions about dryopteris filix-mas

What does dryopteris filix-mas mean?

dryopteris filix-mas means "fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms".

What is another word for dryopteris filix-mas?

Close synonyms include male fern. 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 dryopteris filix-mas a common word?

dryopteris filix-mas 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.