climbing fern

climbing fern

noun
any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.

Origin:
1810–20, Americanism
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climbing fern

noun
any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining 
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