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TREE FERN
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tree 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 "tree fern"):
black tree fern; Cyathea medullaris; sago fern; silver tree fern (a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides)
Dicksonia antarctica; soft tree fern (of Australia and Tasmania; often cultivated; hardy in cool climates)
Cibotium barometz; Scythian lamb (Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic)
thyrsopteris; Thyrsopteris elegans (a terrestrial tree fern of South America)
angiopteris; Angiopteris evecta; giant fern (highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall)
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