glade fern

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   North American fern with narrow fronds on yellowish leafstalks

   Synonymssilvery spleenwortnarrow-leaved spleenwortAthyrium pycnocarponDiplazium pycnocarpon

   Broaderfern

   Part ofAthyrium

Questions about glade fern

What does glade fern mean?

glade fern means "North American fern with narrow fronds on yellowish leafstalks".

What is another word for glade fern?

Close synonyms include silvery spleenwort, narrow-leaved spleenwort, Athyrium pycnocarpon, Diplazium pycnocarpon. 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 glade fern a common word?

glade 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.