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GIANT SCRAMBLING FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does giant scrambling fern mean?
• GIANT SCRAMBLING FERN (noun)
The noun GIANT SCRAMBLING FERN has 1 sense:
1. large scrambling fern forming large patches to 18 feet high; Pacific region and China
Familiarity information: GIANT SCRAMBLING FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GIANT SCRAMBLING FERN (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large scrambling fern forming large patches to 18 feet high; Pacific region and China
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Diplopterygium longissimum; giant scrambling fern
Hypernyms ("giant scrambling 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 ("giant scrambling fern" is a member of...):
Diplopterygium; genus Diplopterygium (scandent thicket-forming ferns of Asia to western Pacific)
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