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

1 sense of bead fern

Sense 1
sensitive fern, bead fern, Onoclea sensibilis -- (beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)