licorice fern

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   fern having rootstock of a sweetish flavor

   SynonymsPolypodium glycyrrhiza

   Broaderpolypody

Questions about licorice fern

What does licorice fern mean?

licorice fern means "fern having rootstock of a sweetish flavor".

What is another word for licorice fern?

Close synonyms include Polypodium glycyrrhiza. 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 licorice fern a common word?

licorice 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.