black tree fern

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   a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides

   Synonymssilver tree fernsago fernCyathea medullaris

   Broadertree fern

   Part ofCyathea

Questions about black tree fern

What does black tree fern mean?

black tree fern means "a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides".

What is another word for black tree fern?

Close synonyms include silver tree fern, sago fern, Cyathea medullaris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black tree fern a common word?

black tree fern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.