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Sweet fern   /swit fərn/   Listen
Sweet fern

noun
1.
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, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare, wall fern.
2.
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.  Synonyms: Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina.






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"Sweet fern" Quotes from Famous Books



... on this wind-swept down grow round balls of dense green foliage four or five feet in diameter, looking as if it needed but a blow of an axe at the butt to send them rolling down wind like big tumble weeds. Scrub oaks curiously take the same form, and clumps of bayberry, black huckleberries and sweet fern are often rounded ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard



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