GIANT SCRAMBLING FERN

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Meaning:

Large scrambling fern forming large patches to 18 feet high; Pacific region and China

Synonyms:

Diplopterygium longissimum; giant scrambling fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("giant scrambling 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 ("giant scrambling fern" is a member of...):

Diplopterygium; genus Diplopterygium (scandent thicket-forming ferns of Asia to western Pacific)

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