goldie's fern

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   North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe

   SynonymsGoldie's shield ferngoldie's wood fernDryopteris goldiana

   Broadershield fern

Questions about goldie's fern

What does goldie's fern mean?

goldie's fern means "North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe".

What is another word for goldie's fern?

Close synonyms include Goldie's shield fern, goldie's wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana. 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 goldie's fern a common word?

goldie's 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.