tree fern
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Noun (1)
- 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 PolypodiaceaeType of fernKinds thyrsopteris, Scythian lamb, silver tree fern, angiopteris, soft tree fern
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Tree fern
Botany, an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical.
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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54