MARATTIA SALICINA

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Meaning:

Large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people

Synonyms:

Marattia salicina; potato fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Marattia salicina" 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 ("Marattia salicina" is a member of...):

genus Marattia; Marattia (type genus of the Marattiaceae: ferns having the sporangia fused together in two rows)