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Bird's nest fern   /bərdz nɛst fərn/   Listen
Bird's nest fern

noun
1.
Tropical Old World or Australian epiphytic fern frequently forming tufts in tree crotches.  Synonym: Asplenium nidus.



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"Bird's nest fern" Quotes from Famous Books



... journey I counted one hundred and twenty-six differing trees and shrubs, fifty-three trailers, seventeen epiphytes, and twenty-eight ferns. I saw more of the shrubs and epiphytes than I have yet done from the altitude of an elephant's back. There was one Asplenium nidus [bird's nest fern] which had thirty-seven perfect fronds radiating from a centre, each frond from three and a quarter to five and a half feet long, and varying from myrtle to ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)



Words linked to "Bird's nest fern" :   genus Asplenium, Asplenium nidus, Asplenium, climbing bird's nest fern, fern



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