sweet-fern
Nouns
- (n) mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, Polypodium vulgare, wall fern, golden polypody,
- (n) deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina,