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hay-scented fern illustration

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hay-scented fern (countable and uncountable, plural hay-scented ferns)

  1. Any fern of genus Dennstaetia, of many warm temperate to tropical regions, especially:
    1. any fern of species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, native to cool-temperate eastern North America.
  2. A hay-scented buckler-fern, of species Dryopteris aemula, native to western Europe and Macaronesia.

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