parasol fern
Australian rare
noun
Either of two Australasian ferns, Gleichenia microphylla and G. dicarpa (family Gleicheniaceae).
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Frederick Bailey (1827–1915).
- jacket potato
- jackfish
- Jack Frost
- jackfruit
- jackhammer
- jackie hangman
- jack-in-office
- jack in (or into)
- jack-in-the-box
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- jackknife
- jackknife clam
- jackknife fish
- jackleg
- jack light
- Jacklin, Tony
- jack mackerel
- Jack Mormon
- Jack Nohi
- jack of all trades (and master of none)
- jack off
- jack-o'-lantern
- jack pine
- jack plane
- jack plug