GOLD FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gold fern mean? 

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

1. fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLD FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

gold fern; Pityrogramma chrysophylla

Hypernyms ("gold 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 ("gold fern" is a member of...):

genus Pityrogramma; Pityrogramma (terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)