PLATYCERIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Platycerium mean? 

• PLATYCERIUM (noun)
  The noun PLATYCERIUM has 1 sense:

1. often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns

  Familiarity information: PLATYCERIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLATYCERIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Platycerium; Platycerium

Hypernyms ("Platycerium" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Platycerium"):

staghorn fern (any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag)

common staghorn fern; elkhorn fern; Platycerium alcicorne; Platycerium bifurcatum (commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia)

Holonyms ("Platycerium" is a member of...):

family Polypodiaceae; Polypodiaceae (ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae))