HAND FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hand fern mean? 

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

1. tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAND FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Doryopteris pedata; hand fern

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)