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Noun: Dryopteris filix-mas
  1. Fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms
    - male fern

Type of: wood fern, woodfern, wood-fern

Encyclopedia: Dryopteris filix-mas