HyperDic: fan_fern

English > 1 sense of the expression fan fern:
NOUNplantfan fern, umbrella fern, Sticherus flabellatus, Gleichenia flabellatalarge Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds
English > fan fern: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninglarge Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia.
Synonymsumbrella fern, Sticherus flabellatus, Gleichenia flabellata
Member ofSticherus, genus Sticherusumbrella ferns
BroaderfernAny of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward

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