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BASKET FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia
Synonyms:
basket fern; Drynaria rigidula
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil
Synonyms:
basket fern; Nephrolepis pectinata; toothed sword fern
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
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)
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