| Noun | 1. | sweet fern - 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. | sweet fern - deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers Synonyms: Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina |
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