Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shield_fern
1 sense of shield fern
Sense 1
shield fern, buckler fern -- (any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori)
=> fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)