OSTRICH FERN


Meaning of OSTRICH FERN in English

noun

: a tall fern of the genus Pteretis ( P. struthiopteris ) of the north temperate zone that has graceful arched bipinnatifid fronds growing in a circle from an erect rootstock and pinnate sporophylls having segments like a necklace and resembling ostrich plumes ; broadly : any fern of the genus Pteretis

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