oak fern

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oak fern

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a graceful light green polypody fern, Thelypteris dryopteris, having a creeping rhizome, found in acid woodlands and on rocks in the northern hemisphere

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oak fern - bright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere

Gymnocarpium dryopteris, Thelypteris dryopteris

fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

genus Gymnocarpium, Gymnocarpium - oak ferns: in some classification systems included in genus Thelypteris

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Athyriaceae Dryopteridaceae family Athyriaceae family Dryopteridaceae fern genus Gymnocarpium Gymnocarpium Gymnocarpium dryopteris Gymnocarpium robertianum limestone fern northern oak fern Thelypteris dryopteris			O.E.D. o.g. o.j. O.K. o.n.o o.n.o. o.p. o.s. O.T.E. o/a o/c o/s o’clock Oad oaf oafish Oafishness oafo Oahu Oahu Island oak oak apple Oak beauty oak blight oak chestnut oak fern Oak gall Oak Lawn oak leaf cluster Oak leather Oak Park Oak pruner Oak spangle oak tree Oak wart oak wilt Oak-apple Day oak-leaf cluster oak-leaved goosefoot oaked oaken Oaker Oakham Oakland oakleaf goosefoot Oakley Oakling Oaks oakum Oakville oakwood			Oak Brook Fertility Center Oak Brook Public Library Oak Brook Racquet and Fitness Club oak buds oak buds oak buds Oak Canyon Nature Center oak chestnut Oak Cliff Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Oak Cliff Circle of Poets Oak Cliff, Texas Oak Creek Oak Creek Assembly Of God Oak Creek Canyon Task Force Oak Creek Community Preschool Oak Creek Fire Protection District Oak Creek High School Oak Creek Public Library Oak Cult Oak Cult Oak Embers Owners Association oak fern oak ferns Oak Flats High School Oak Forest Oak Forest High School Oak Forest Homeowners Association Oak Forest Swim Association Oak Forest, Illinois Oak gall Oak Glen High School Oak Glen Middle School Oak grove Oak Grove Athletic Association Oak Grove Band Boosters Oak Grove Baptist Church Oak Grove Central Elementary Oak Grove Disc Golf Course Oak Grove Educators Association Oak Grove High School Oak Grove Little League Oak Grove Oracle Oak Grove Presbyterian Church Oak Grove Restoration Branch Oak Grove School District Oak Grove Soccer League

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