OSTRICH FERN

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Meaning:

Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes

Synonyms:

fiddlehead; Matteuccia struthiopteris; Onoclea struthiopteris; ostrich fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; shuttlecock fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ostrich 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 ("ostrich fern" is a member of...):

genus Matteuccia; genus Pteretis; Matteuccia; Pteretis (small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae)

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