SILVER TREE FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver tree fern mean? • SILVER TREE FERN (noun)
The noun SILVER TREE FERN has 1 sense:
1. a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides
Familiarity information: SILVER TREE FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SILVER TREE FERN (noun)
Meaning:
A showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
black tree fern; Cyathea medullaris; sago fern; silver tree fern
Hypernyms ("silver tree fern" is a kind of...):
tree fern (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 Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae)
Holonyms ("silver tree fern" is a member of...):
Cyathea; genus Cyathea (type genus of the Cyatheaceae: tree ferns of the tropical rain forest to temperate woodlands)
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