hard fern

noun

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 name: deer fern

Words Nearby hard fern

hard-faced
hard-favored
hard-featured
hard feeling
hard feelings
hard fern
hard-fisted
hard goods
hard ground
hardhack
hard-handed

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How to use hard fern in a sentence

The texture of both the barren and the fertile fronds of the hard fern is very leathery.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard Bastin

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