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BAMBOO FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bamboo fern mean?
• BAMBOO FERN (noun)
The noun BAMBOO FERN has 1 sense:
1. fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
Familiarity information: BAMBOO FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bamboo fern; Coniogramme japonica
Hypernyms ("bamboo fern" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("bamboo fern" is a member of...):
Coniogramme; genus Coniogramme (terrestrial ferns of Pacific islands and Asia)
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