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Sweet Fern

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Noun

1. adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, polypodium vulgare, sweet fern, wall fern

mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

2. comptonia asplenifolia, comptonia peregrina, sweet fern

deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

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Sweet Fern

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noun
a North American shrub, Comptonia (or Myrica) asplenifolia, having scented fernlike leaves and heads of brownish flowers: family Myricaceae

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Sweet Fern

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a flowering shrub (Comptonia peregrina) of the bayberry family, with fragrant, fernlike leaves

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Sweet Fern

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n.
An aromatic deciduous shrub (Comptonia peregrina) of eastern North America, having narrow, deeply lobed, fernlike leaves and minute flowers grouped in catkinlike heads.

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