platycerium alcicorne

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   commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia

   Synonymscommon staghorn fernelkhorn fernPlatycerium bifurcatum

   Broaderstaghorn fern

   Part ofPlatycerium

Questions about platycerium alcicorne

What does platycerium alcicorne mean?

platycerium alcicorne means "commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia".

What is another word for platycerium alcicorne?

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

platycerium alcicorne 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.