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

3 senses of ribbon fern

Sense 1
ribbon fern, spider fern, Pteris serrulata -- (fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 2
grass fern, ribbon fern, Vittaria lineata -- (epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 3
ribbon fern, Ophioglossum pendulum -- (epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America)
       => adder's tongue, adder's tongue fern -- (ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue)