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sweet fern


sweet fern

n. An aromatic deciduous shrub (Comptonia peregrina) of eastern North America, having narrow, deeply lobed, fernlike leaves and minute flowers grouped in catkinlike heads.

sweet fern

n (Plants) a North American shrub, Comptonia (or Myrica) asplenifolia, having scented fernlike leaves and heads of brownish flowers: family Myricaceae
Thesaurus
Noun1.sweet fern - mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asiasweet fern - mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asiaadder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, Polypodium vulgare, wall fern, golden polypodypolypody - any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
2.sweet fern - deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowersComptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrinaComptonia, genus Comptonia - one species: sweet fernbush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

sweet fern


sweet fern,

common name for several plants belonging to different botanical divisions. One is a shrub of the family Myricaceae (bayberrybayberry,
common name for the Myricaceae, a family of trees and shrubs with aromatic foliage, found chiefly in temperate and subtropical regions. The waxy gray "berries" of the North American wild or cultivated bayberry shrubs (chiefly Myrica cerifera
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 family) in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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; others are plants of the genus Dryopteris in the division PolypodiophytaPolypodiophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of the plants commonly called ferns. The ferns are vascular plants with stems, roots, and leaves. The small and inconspicuous gametophyte and the large spore-producing fern plant are quite independent of each other.
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 (fernsfern,
any plant of the division Polypodiophyta. Fern species, numbering several thousand, are found throughout the world but are especially abundant in tropical rain forests. The ferns and their relatives (e.g.
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sweet fern

sweet fern

Strongly aromatic. Used for healing of the gums, ulcers, bleeding conditions, (astringent) ulcerative colitis, Crohn's. Helps all kinds of health conditions by taking the tea several times a day 5 days a week. Putting sweet fern leaves mixed in with a batch of blueberries helps magically preserve the blueberries for weeks, even a month. It is said sweet fern helps preserve life itself.

sweet fern


Related to sweet fern: Comptonia peregrina, sheep laurel
  • noun

Synonyms for sweet fern

noun mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

Synonyms

  • adder's fern
  • common polypody
  • golden maidenhair
  • Polypodium vulgare
  • wall fern
  • golden polypody

Related Words

  • polypody

noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

Synonyms

  • Comptonia asplenifolia
  • Comptonia peregrina

Related Words

  • Comptonia
  • genus Comptonia
  • bush
  • shrub
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