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SILVER TREE FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver tree fern mean? 

SILVER TREE FERN (noun)
  The noun SILVER TREE FERN has 1 sense:

1. a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersidesplay

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


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SILVER TREE FERN (noun)


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Meaning:

A showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black tree fern; Cyathea medullaris; sago fern; silver tree fern

Hypernyms ("silver tree fern" is a kind of...):

tree fern (any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae)

Holonyms ("silver tree fern" is a member of...):

Cyathea; genus Cyathea (type genus of the Cyatheaceae: tree ferns of the tropical rain forest to temperate woodlands)


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