southwestern lip fern

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   lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds

   SynonymsCheilanthes eatonii

   Broaderlip fern

Questions about southwestern lip fern

What does southwestern lip fern mean?

southwestern lip fern means "lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds".

What is another word for southwestern lip fern?

Close synonyms include Cheilanthes eatonii. 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 southwestern lip fern a common word?

southwestern 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.