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Noun: hand fern
  1. Tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds
    "Hand ferns display their distinctive palm-like fronds in tropical gardens";
    - Doryopteris pedata

Derived forms: hand ferns

Type of: fern

Part of: Doryopteris, genus Doryopteris

Encyclopedia: Hand fern