STAGHORN FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does staghorn fern mean? 

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

1. any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAGHORN FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("staghorn 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "staghorn fern"):

Platycerium andinum; South American staghorn (fern of Peru and Bolivia)

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

Holonyms ("staghorn fern" is a member of...):

genus Platycerium; Platycerium (often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns)