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1. mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

2. deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

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a. : any of several shield ferns of the genus Dryopteris

b. : a common polypody (Polypodium vulgare)

2. : a small No. American shrub (Comptonia peregrina) of the family Myricaceae having sweet-scented or aromatic fernlike leaves

3. dialect England : sweet cicely

sweet fern,

1. a small shrub of North America of the same family as the wax myrtle, with fragrant, fernlike leaves.

2. any one of various ferns.