scaly fern

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Noun

1.scaly fern - small European fern with chaffy leathery frondsAsplenium ceterach, Ceterach officinarum, scale fernfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesAsplenium, genus Asplenium - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae