shield fern
any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
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The noble fronds of the Dilated Shield-fern are still in fairly good order, and Ceterach in rocky chinks is in fullest beauty.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude JekyllThe plant bears a family likeness to the Crested shield fern, but its conspicuously marginal fruit-dots identify it at sight.
How to Know the Ferns | Frances Theodora ParsonsThis is a much larger and more showy plant than the Crested shield fern.
How to Know the Ferns | Frances Theodora ParsonsThe Fragrant shield fern thrives in a colder climate than that chosen by many of its kinsmen.
How to Know the Ferns | Frances Theodora ParsonsThe fronds of the Fragrant shield fern grow in a crown and the fertile ones fruit in great abundance.
How to Know the Ferns | Frances Theodora Parsons
British Dictionary definitions for shield fern
any temperate woodland fern of the genus Polystichum having shield-shaped flaps covering the spore-producing bodies: family Aspleniaceae
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