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Definition of Hairy lip fern
1. Noun. Small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairy Lip Fern
Literary usage of Hairy lip fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"The name of hairy lip-fern, by which this species is frequently mentioned in the
books, is rarely used in speaking of it. Recently the specific name lanosa ..."
2. A World of Green Hills: Observations of Nature and Human Nature in the Blue by Bradford Torrey (1898)
"... directly in the rear of the hotel, I came upon a dense patch of a smallish,
very narrow, dark-stemmed fern, new to my eyes, — the hairy lip-fern, ..."
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