sweet fern

Questions about sweet fern

What does sweet fern mean?

sweet fern means "mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sweet fern?

Close synonyms include common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody. 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 sweet fern a common word?

sweet 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.