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

1 sense of dagger fern

Sense 1
Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger fern, evergreen wood fern, Polystichum acrostichoides -- (North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)