shuttlecock fern

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1. tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes (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 matteuccia, genus pteretis, matteuccia, pteretis,
definition	:	small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae (noun.plant)