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

2 senses of sweet fern

Sense 1
common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare -- (mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia)
       => polypody -- (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)

Sense 2
sweet fern, Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia -- (deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)