Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black_tree_fern

1 sense of black tree fern

Sense 1
silver tree fern, sago fern, black tree fern, Cyathea medullaris -- (a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides)
       => 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)