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CREPE FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crepe fern mean?
• CREPE FERN (noun)
The noun CREPE FERN has 1 sense:
1. fern of rain forests of tropical Australia and New Zealand and South Africa
Familiarity information: CREPE FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fern of rain forests of tropical Australia and New Zealand and South Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
crepe fern; king fern; Todea barbara
Hypernyms ("crepe 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 ("crepe fern" is a member of...):
genus Todea; Todea (a genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae)
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