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

1 sense of bristle fern

Sense 1
bristle fern, filmy fern -- (any fern of the genus Trichomanes having large pinnatifid often translucent fronds; most are epiphytic on tree branches and twigs or terrestrial on mossy banks)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)