UMBRELLA FERN

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Meaning:

Large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia

Synonyms:

fan fern; Gleichenia flabellata; Sticherus flabellatus; umbrella fern

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Nouns denoting plants

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

genus Sticherus; Sticherus (umbrella ferns; warm regions of Australia and New Zealand)

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