HELMINTHOSTACHYS ZEYLANICA

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Meaning:

Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds

Synonyms:

flowering fern; Helminthostachys zeylanica

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Helminthostachys zeylanica" 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 ("Helminthostachys zeylanica" is a member of...):

genus Helminthostachys; Helminthostachys (one species: terrestrial fern of southeastern Asia and Australia)

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