ostrich fern

Questions about ostrich fern

What does ostrich fern mean?

ostrich fern means "tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes".

What is another word for ostrich fern?

Close synonyms include shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris. 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 ostrich fern a common word?

ostrich 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.