sweet fern   (TTS Sound)

The noun sweet fern has 2 senses

• common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare -- (mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia)


• sweet fern, Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia -- (deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers)