climbing fern

climb·ing fern (klmng)

n.

Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Lygodium, having a single pinnately compound leaf that climbs by twining, including L. palmatum of the eastern United States.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

climbing fern - any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Lygodium, Lygodium - chiefly tropical climbing ferns creeping fern, Hartford fern, Lygodium palmatum - delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds climbing maidenhair, climbing maidenhair fern, Lygodium microphyllum, snake fern - tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida climber - a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants