Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

walking fern

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English

Syllables: walk-ing fern
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of two species of fern in the genus Asplenium (Asplenium rhizophyllum or Asplenium sibiricum) that produce new plantlets from the tips of their leaves.

Inflected Forms

walking ferns (plural)

Synonyms

walking leaf asplenium rhizophyllum camptosorus rhizophyllus

Questions

What does walking fern mean?: Either of two species of fern in the genus Asplenium (Asplenium rhizophyllum or Asplenium sibiricum) that produce new plantlets from the tips of their leaves.

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