soft shield fern

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1. European shield fern cultivated in many varieties (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	buckler fern, shield fern,
definition	:	any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus polystichum, polystichum,
definition	:	small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae (noun.plant)