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ostrich fern

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English

Syllables
os-trich fern
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the species Matteuccia struthiopteris, a crown-forming, colony-forming fern occurring in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in eastern and northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.

Inflected Forms

ostrich ferns (plural)

Synonyms

shuttlecock fern fiddlehead matteuccia struthiopteris pteretis struthiopteris onoclea struthiopteris

Questions

What does ostrich fern mean?
Any member of the species Matteuccia struthiopteris, a crown-forming, colony-forming fern occurring in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in eastern and northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.

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