sensitive fern
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1. beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fern, |
| definition | : | any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus onoclea, onoclea, |
| definition | : | one species: sensitive fern; in some classifications included in Polypodiaceae (noun.plant) |
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