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Noun: evergreen wood fern
  1. North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
    - Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger fern, Polystichum acrostichoides
     
  2. North American fern with evergreen fronds
    - marginal wood fern, leatherleaf wood fern, Dryopteris marginalis

Derived forms: evergreen wood ferns

Type of: fern, wood fern, woodfern, wood-fern

Part of: genus Polystichum, Polystichum

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