silvery spleenwort

Questions about silvery spleenwort

What does silvery spleenwort mean?

silvery spleenwort means "fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for silvery spleenwort?

Close synonyms include Deparia acrostichoides, Athyrium thelypteroides, glade fern, narrow-leaved spleenwort, Athyrium pycnocarpon. 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 silvery spleenwort a common word?

silvery spleenwort 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.