smooth lip fern

1. 1.

   southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica

   SynonymsAlabama lip fernCheilanthes alabamensis

   Broaderlip fern

Questions about smooth lip fern

What does smooth lip fern mean?

smooth lip fern means "southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica".

What is another word for smooth lip fern?

Close synonyms include Alabama lip fern, Cheilanthes alabamensis. 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 smooth lip fern a common word?

smooth lip 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.