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

1 sense of male fern

Sense 1
male fern, Dryopteris filix-mas -- (fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms)
       => wood fern, wood-fern, woodfern -- (any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris)