ribbon fern

English Thesaurus

1. epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	adder's tongue, adder's tongue fern,
definition	:	ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue (noun.plant)

2. epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fern,
definition	:	any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus vittaria, vittaria,
definition	:	tropical epiphytic ferns with straplike fronds (noun.plant)

3. fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fern,
definition	:	any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus pteris, pteris,
definition	:	large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae (noun.plant)