evergreen wood fern

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	evergreen wood fern - North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped frondscanker brake, Christmas fern, dagger fern, Polystichum acrostichoidesfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesgenus Polystichum, Polystichum - small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae
	2.	evergreen wood fern - North American fern with evergreen frondsDryopteris marginalis, leatherleaf wood fern, marginal wood fernwood fern, woodfern, wood-fern - any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris