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HELMINTHOSTACHYS ZEYLANICA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Helminthostachys zeylanica mean?
• HELMINTHOSTACHYS ZEYLANICA (noun)
The noun HELMINTHOSTACHYS ZEYLANICA has 1 sense:
1. Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds
Familiarity information: HELMINTHOSTACHYS ZEYLANICA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HELMINTHOSTACHYS ZEYLANICA (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
flowering fern; Helminthostachys zeylanica
Hypernyms ("Helminthostachys zeylanica" 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 ("Helminthostachys zeylanica" is a member of...):
genus Helminthostachys; Helminthostachys (one species: terrestrial fern of southeastern Asia and Australia)
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