silver fern

Questions about silver fern

What does silver fern mean?

silver fern means "tropical American fern having fronds with white undersides". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for silver fern?

Close synonyms include Pityrogramma calomelanos, Pityrogramma argentea. 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 silver fern a common word?

silver fern is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.