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sweet fern

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sweet fern
n.
An aromatic deciduous shrub (Comptonia peregrina) of eastern North America, having narrow, deeply lobed, fernlike leaves and minute flowers grouped in catkinlike heads.
sweet fern
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a North American shrub, Comptonia (or Myrica) asplenifolia, having scented fernlike leaves and heads of brownish flowers: family Myricaceae
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Noun1.sweet fernsweet 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 - one species: sweet fern
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems


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Sweet Fern has learned to read and write, and has put on a jacket and pair of pantaloons--all of which improvements I am sorry for.
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Carter's cows, trod the short grass of the pasture, with its well-worn path running through gardens of buttercups and white- weed, and groves of ivory leaves and sweet fern.
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