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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various ferns of the widespread genus Cystopteris, having pinnately compound fronds and often growing in rocky areas.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori

Etymologies

  1. After its bladderlike indusium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. fern

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  1. bulblet bladder fern
  2. berry fern
  1. cystopteris montana
  2. cystopteris bulbifera
  1. fragile fern
  2. cystopteris fragilis
  1. bulblet fern
  2. brittle bladder fern
  1. mountain bladder fern
  2. brittle fern

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  1. filix

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