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BASKET FERN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does basket fern mean?

• BASKET FERN (noun)
The noun BASKET FERN has 2 senses:

1. tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil
2. giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia

Familiarity information: BASKET FERN used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BASKET FERN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

basket fern; Nephrolepis pectinata; toothed sword fern

Hypernyms ("basket fern" is a kind of...):

sword fern (any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Drynaria rigidula; basket fern

Hypernyms ("basket fern" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("basket fern" is a member of...):

Drynaria; genus Drynaria (large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia)

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