RIBBON FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ribbon fern mean? 

• RIBBON FERN (noun)
  The noun RIBBON FERN has 3 senses:

1. fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands

2. epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America

3. epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America

  Familiarity information: RIBBON FERN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIBBON FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Pteris serrulata; ribbon fern; spider fern

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

genus Pteris; Pteris (large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

grass fern; ribbon fern; Vittaria lineata

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

genus Vittaria; Vittaria (tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ophioglossum pendulum; ribbon fern

Hypernyms ("ribbon fern" is a kind of...):

adder's tongue; adder's tongue fern (ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue)