Usually means: Fern genus, often with scales.
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  1. shield fern: Merriam-Webster
  2. shield fern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shield fern: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shield fern: Vocabulary.com
  5. shield fern: Wordnik
  6. shield fern: Wiktionary
  7. shield fern: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. shield fern: Dictionary.com
  9. Shield-fern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. shield fern: Rhymezone
  11. shield fern: FreeDictionary.org
  12. shield fern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. shield fern: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shield fern: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shield fern)

noun:  Certain of the ferns of four genera:
noun:  Dryopteris (buckler ferns)
noun:  Lastreopsis spp.
noun:  Polystichum spp.
noun:  (Australia) Sticherus spp.

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