dryopteris oreades

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   a fern of the genus Dryopteris

   Synonymsmountain male fern

   Broaderwood fern

Questions about dryopteris oreades

What does dryopteris oreades mean?

dryopteris oreades means "a fern of the genus Dryopteris".

What is another word for dryopteris oreades?

Close synonyms include mountain 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 oreades a common word?

dryopteris oreades 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.