Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gymnocarpium_dryopteris
1 sense of gymnocarpium 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)