Whisk fern Moderate

Whisk fern has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

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

whisk fern

Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family Psilotaceae, that have leafless dichotomous stems and produce spores.

See Also

simple vascular psilotophyte pteridophyte psilotum whisk ferns psilotaceae stem

Related Terms

simple vascular psilotophyte pteridophyte psilotum whisk ferns psilotaceae stem spore dichotomous plant leafless

Broader Terms (hypernyms)

fern ally

Narrower Terms (hyponyms)

skeleton fork fern

Rhyming Words

ern bern tern dern kern yern vern wern hern pern fern gern cern ahern stern thern scern quern altern astern

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