A large palmlike fern with a trunk that bears a crown of large fronds. Tree ferns sometimes reach a height of 24 m and occur chiefly in the tropics, particularly the southern hemisphere.
桫椤
Cyatheaceae and related families, class Filicopsida: seven genera, in particular Cyathea and Dicksonia
Example sentencesExamples
The new Mediterranean Garden is beginning to grow, and the new tree fern now has 6 fronds and more coming on.
In a partial cross section of a tree fern that lived about 200 million years ago, blue chalcedony (a type of quartz) and orange iron oxides and hydroxides have replaced the original structures.
The flat, strappy foliage of the exotic night bloomer contrasts texturally with a bed companion, the enormous, finely cut fronds of an Australian tree fern.
Two years ago, I bought a tree fern and potted it as per instructions.
The tree fern is usually thought of as a conservatory plant, too tender for year-round outdoors except in the most sheltered circumstances, but I seem to notice more and more of them thriving outside.
Definition of tree fern in US English:
tree fern
nounˈtrē ˌfərn
A large palmlike fern with a trunk that bears a crown of large fronds. Tree ferns sometimes reach a height of 24 m and occur chiefly in the tropics, particularly the southern hemisphere.
桫椤
Cyatheaceae and related families, class Filicopsida: seven genera, in particular Cyathea and Dicksonia
Example sentencesExamples
The flat, strappy foliage of the exotic night bloomer contrasts texturally with a bed companion, the enormous, finely cut fronds of an Australian tree fern.
Two years ago, I bought a tree fern and potted it as per instructions.
In a partial cross section of a tree fern that lived about 200 million years ago, blue chalcedony (a type of quartz) and orange iron oxides and hydroxides have replaced the original structures.
The tree fern is usually thought of as a conservatory plant, too tender for year-round outdoors except in the most sheltered circumstances, but I seem to notice more and more of them thriving outside.
The new Mediterranean Garden is beginning to grow, and the new tree fern now has 6 fronds and more coming on.