common staghorn fern

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   commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia

   Synonymselkhorn fernPlatycerium bifurcatumPlatycerium alcicorne

   Broaderstaghorn fern

   Part ofPlatycerium

Questions about common staghorn fern

What does common staghorn fern mean?

common staghorn fern means "commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia".

What is another word for common staghorn fern?

Close synonyms include elkhorn fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, Platycerium alcicorne. 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 common staghorn fern a common word?

common staghorn 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.