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ELKHORN FERN

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• ELKHORN FERN (noun)
The noun ELKHORN FERN has 1 sense:

1. commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia

Familiarity information: ELKHORN FERN used as a noun is very rare.

• ELKHORN FERN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common staghorn fern; elkhorn fern; Platycerium alcicorne; Platycerium bifurcatum

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

staghorn fern (any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag)

Holonyms ("elkhorn fern" is a member of...):

genus Platycerium; Platycerium (often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns)

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