HAND FERN

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Meaning:

Tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds

Synonyms:

Doryopteris pedata; hand fern

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Nouns denoting plants

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

Doryopteris; genus Doryopteris (small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae)

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