polystichum acrostichoides

What does polystichum acrostichoides mean?

polystichum acrostichoides means "North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds".

What is another word for polystichum acrostichoides?

Close synonyms include Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger fern, evergreen wood 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 polystichum acrostichoides a common word?

polystichum acrostichoides 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for polystichum acrostichoides come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.