marsh fern

marsh fern

n (Plants) a fern of marshy woodlands, Thelypteris palustris, having pale green pinnate leaves and an underground rootstock

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marsh fern - fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regionsDryopteris thelypteris, Thelypteris palustrisfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesgenus Thelypteris, Thelypteris - marsh ferns: in some classification systems considered part of genus Dryopteris in family DryopteridaceaeDryopteris thelypteris pubescens, meadow fern, snuffbox fern, Thelypteris palustris pubescens - fern of northeastern North America