woodsia alpina

1. 1.

   slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori

   SynonymsAlpine woodsianorthern woodsiaflower-cup fern

   Broaderwoodsia

Questions about woodsia alpina

What does woodsia alpina mean?

woodsia alpina means "slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori".

What is another word for woodsia alpina?

Close synonyms include Alpine woodsia, northern woodsia, flower-cup fern. 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 woodsia alpina a common word?

woodsia alpina 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.