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OSTRICH FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
Synonyms:
fiddlehead; Matteuccia struthiopteris; Onoclea struthiopteris; ostrich fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; shuttlecock fern
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ostrich fern" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("ostrich fern" is a member of...):
genus Matteuccia; genus Pteretis; Matteuccia; Pteretis (small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae)
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