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RIBBON FERN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America

Synonyms:

Ophioglossum pendulum; ribbon fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ribbon fern" is a kind of...):

adder's tongue; adder's tongue fern (ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America

Synonyms:

grass fern; ribbon fern; Vittaria lineata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

genus Vittaria; Vittaria (tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands

Synonyms:

Pteris serrulata; ribbon fern; spider fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

genus Pteris; Pteris (large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae)

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