Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any member of the species Matteuccia struthiopteris, a crown-forming, colony-forming fern occurring in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in eastern and northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.

    Straußenfarn

More definitions
  • tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Matteuccia struthiopetris:

Forms

plural: ostrich ferns
Singularostrich fern
Pluralostrich ferns

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
shuttlecock fern
Close in meaning
  • tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes:shuttlecock fernfiddleheadMatteuccia struthiopterisPteretis struthiopterisOnoclea struthiopteris

See also

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