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SOFT TREE FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of Australia and Tasmania; often cultivated; hardy in cool climates
Synonyms:
Dicksonia antarctica; soft tree fern
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("soft tree fern" is a kind of...):
tree fern (any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae)
Holonyms ("soft tree fern" is a member of...):
Dicksonia; genus Dicksonia (tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae)
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