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

1 sense of hand fern

Sense 1
hand fern, Doryopteris pedata -- (tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)