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climbing fern

noun

  1. any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of climbing fern1

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20
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Example Sentences

Over moist thickets, in rarely favored retreats from Massachusetts southward, clamber the slender strands of the Climbing Fern.

I know no other fern, save the climbing fern, which is so vine-like and clinging.

Mr. Kekwick found a number of new plants, among them a fine climbing fern.

For the ornamentation of the rustic monogram I use wood and rock lichens, fungi, Spanish moss, and pressed climbing fern.

We found here a fine colony of the climbing fern (Lygodium).

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