| NOUN | plant | staghorn fern | any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag |
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| Meaning | Any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag. | |
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| Member of | Platycerium, genus Platycerium | Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns |
| Narrower | South American staghorn, Platycerium andinum | fern of Peru and Bolivia |
| common staghorn fern, elkhorn fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, Platycerium alcicorne | commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia | |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
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