Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thelypteris_dryopteris

1 sense of thelypteris dryopteris

Sense 1
oak fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, Thelypteris dryopteris -- (bright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)