hand fern

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Noun

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hand fern - tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid frondsDoryopteris pedatafern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesDoryopteris, genus Doryopteris - small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae