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

1 sense of fan fern

Sense 1
umbrella fern, fan fern, Sticherus flabellatus, Gleichenia flabellata -- (large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)