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STRAP FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("strap 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strap fern"):
cow-tongue fern; Florida strap fern; hart's-tongue fern (common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay)
Campyloneurum augustifolium; Central American strap fern; narrow-leaved strap fern (fern with shorter and narrower leaves than Florida strap fern; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Argentina)
Holonyms ("strap fern" is a member of...):
Campyloneurum; genus Campyloneurum (epiphytic ferns of tropical America)