| Noun | 1. | evergreen wood fern - North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped frondsfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Polystichum, Polystichum - small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae |
| 2. | evergreen wood fern - North American fern with evergreen fronds |