Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prickly_shield_fern
1 sense of prickly shield fern
Sense 1
Braun's holly fern, prickly shield fern, Polystichum braunii -- (North American fern whose more or less evergreen leathery fronds are covered with pale brown chafflike scales)
=> holly fern -- (any of various ferns of the genus Polystichum having fronds with texture and gloss like holly)