pteretis struthiopteris

Questions about pteretis struthiopteris

What does pteretis struthiopteris mean?

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

What is another word for pteretis struthiopteris?

Close synonyms include ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia 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 pteretis struthiopteris a common word?

pteretis struthiopteris 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.