glade fern

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Noun

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glade fern - North American fern with narrow fronds on yellowish leafstalksAthyrium pycnocarpon, Diplazium pycnocarpon, narrow-leaved spleenwort, silvery spleenwortfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesAthyrium, genus Athyrium - temperate and tropical lady ferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or in the genus Asplenium