Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun scaly_fern
1 sense of scaly fern
Sense 1
scale fern, scaly fern, Asplenium ceterach, Ceterach officinarum -- (small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds)
=> fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)