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

1 sense of thyrsopteris elegans

Sense 1
thyrsopteris, Thyrsopteris elegans -- (a terrestrial tree fern of South America)
       => tree fern -- (any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae)