| NOUN | plant | tree fern | any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds |
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| Meaning | Any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families ... / families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae. | |
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| Narrower | Scythian lamb, Cibotium barometz | Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic |
| angiopteris, giant fern, Angiopteris evecta | Highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall | |
| silver tree fern, sago fern, black tree fern, Cyathea medullaris | A showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides | |
| soft tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica | Of Australia and Tasmania | |
| thyrsopteris, Thyrsopteris elegans | A terrestrial tree fern of South America | |
| 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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