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A deer fern, any of species Struthiopteris spicant (syn. Blechnum spicant) of ferns of Europe and northwestern America..
Use hard fern when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hard fern means A deer fern, any of species Struthiopteris spicant (syn. Blechnum spicant) of ferns of Europe and northwestern America..
Common synonyms include hardfern.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use hard fern where its definition matches the intended context.
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