whisk fern

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   chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal appearance resembling whisk brooms; lacking roots

   Broaderfern ally

   Narrowerskeleton fork fern

   Part ofPsilotum

Questions about whisk fern

What does whisk fern mean?

whisk fern means "chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal appearance resembling whisk brooms; lacking roots".

Is whisk fern a common word?

whisk 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.