platycerium bifurcatum

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   commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia

   Synonymscommon staghorn fernelkhorn fernPlatycerium alcicorne

   Broaderstaghorn fern

   Part ofPlatycerium

Questions about platycerium bifurcatum

What does platycerium bifurcatum mean?

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

What is another word for platycerium bifurcatum?

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

platycerium bifurcatum 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.