sweet fern

Noun	1.	sweet 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 adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, Polypodium vulgare, wall fern, golden polypody polypody - any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
	2.	sweet fern - deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina Comptonia, genus Comptonia - 1 species: sweet fern bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

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