goldie's shield fern

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   North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe

   SynonymsGoldie's ferngoldie's wood fernDryopteris goldiana

   Broadershield fern

Questions about goldie's shield fern

What does goldie's shield fern mean?

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

What is another word for goldie's shield fern?

Close synonyms include Goldie's 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 shield fern a common word?

goldie's shield 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.