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

1 sense of ostrich fern

Sense 1
ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris -- (tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)