lip fern

/lɪp fərn/

Other forms: lip ferns

Definitions of lip fern

1. noun

   any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions
   synonyms: lipfern

   types:

   Alabama lip fern, Cheilanthes alabamensis, smooth lip fern

   southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica

   Cheilanthes lanosa, hairy lip fern, wooly lip fern

   small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly

   Cheilanthes eatonii, southwestern lip fern

   lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds

   type of:

   fern

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