king fern

English Thesaurus

1. large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	flowering fern, osmund,
definition	:	any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters (noun.plant)

2. fern of rain forests of tropical Australia and New Zealand and South Africa (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 todea, todea,
definition	:	a genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae (noun.plant)