strap fern

/stræp fərn/

Definitions of strap fern

1. noun

   fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves
   types:

   Florida strap fern, cow-tongue fern, hart's-tongue fern

   common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay

   Campyloneurum augustifolium, Central American strap fern, narrow-leaved strap fern

   fern with shorter and narrower leaves than Florida strap fern; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Argentina

   type of:

   fern

   any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores