silvery spleenwort

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silvery spleenwort - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  silvery spleenwort
      n 1: fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the
           developing spores [syn: silvery spleenwort, Deparia acrostichoides
           , Athyrium thelypteroides]
      2: North American fern with narrow fronds on yellowish
         leafstalks [syn: silvery spleenwort, glade fern, narrow-   leaved spleenwort
         , Athyrium pycnocarpon, Diplazium   pycnocarpon
         ]