English noun: sweet fern | |||
1. | sweet fern (plant) mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia | ||
Synonyms | adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare, wall fern | ||
Broader (hypernym) | polypody | ||
2. | sweet fern (plant) deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers | ||
Synonyms | Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub | ||
Member meronym | Comptonia, genus Comptonia | ||