fan fern

English Thesaurus

1. large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia (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 sticherus, sticherus,
definition	:	umbrella ferns; warm regions of Australia and New Zealand (noun.plant)