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    SHUTTLECOCK FERN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumesplay

    Synonyms:

    fiddlehead; Matteuccia struthiopteris; Onoclea struthiopteris; ostrich fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; shuttlecock fern

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    Nouns denoting plants

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

    genus Matteuccia; genus Pteretis; Matteuccia; Pteretis (small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae)

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