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Noun: umbrella fern
  1. Large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
    - fan fern, Sticherus flabellatus, Gleichenia flabellata

Derived forms: umbrella ferns

Type of: fern

Part of: genus Sticherus, Sticherus

Encyclopedia: Umbrella fern