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tree fern

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Any of various tropical treelike ferns having a woody trunklike stem and a terminal crown of large, pinnately divided fronds.

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tree fern

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of numerous large tropical ferns, mainly of the family Cyatheaceae, having a trunklike stem bearing fronds at the top

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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 fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores black tree fern, Cyathea medullaris, sago fern, silver tree fern - a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides Dicksonia antarctica, soft tree fern - of Australia and Tasmania; often cultivated; hardy in cool climates Cibotium barometz, Scythian lamb - Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic thyrsopteris, Thyrsopteris elegans - a terrestrial tree fern of South America angiopteris, Angiopteris evecta, giant fern - highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall