hard fern

noun

1. a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed US namedeer fern

Example Sentences

The texture of both the barren and the fertile fronds of the Hard Fern is very leathery.

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