A small fern of damp shady places, with wiry creeping stems and delicate forked fronds which are only one cell thick. They occur chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions.
膜蕨
Family Hymenophyllaceae: Hymenophyllum and other genera
Example sentencesExamples
Ferns vary in height from the diminutive filmy fern of less than an inch to the vast tree ferns of the tropics, reaching a height of sixty feet or more.
Everything about it is supremely delicate, from the filmy fern leaves to the masses of mauve bell flowers with dangling pale gold anthers that hover over the garden like a pale mist in August.
There are filmy ferns, and more jagged ferns, ferns which look like moss, and the stumpy Mexican tree fern which never grows very tall.
Because of this high level of humidity, thick, lush mosses also thrive in the filmy fern house.
Contrastingly, there occur shade and moisture dependent species, such as members of the filmy fern family, found mostly by the riverbank.
Definition of filmy fern in US English:
filmy fern
noun
A small fern of damp shady places, with wiry creeping stems and delicate forked fronds which are only one cell thick. They occur chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions.
膜蕨
Family Hymenophyllaceae: Hymenophyllum and other genera
Example sentencesExamples
Everything about it is supremely delicate, from the filmy fern leaves to the masses of mauve bell flowers with dangling pale gold anthers that hover over the garden like a pale mist in August.
Ferns vary in height from the diminutive filmy fern of less than an inch to the vast tree ferns of the tropics, reaching a height of sixty feet or more.
Contrastingly, there occur shade and moisture dependent species, such as members of the filmy fern family, found mostly by the riverbank.
There are filmy ferns, and more jagged ferns, ferns which look like moss, and the stumpy Mexican tree fern which never grows very tall.
Because of this high level of humidity, thick, lush mosses also thrive in the filmy fern house.