serpent fern

What does serpent fern mean?

serpent fern means "tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium".

What is another word for serpent fern?

Close synonyms include golden polypody, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum. 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 serpent fern a common word?

serpent 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.

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