Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun basket_fern

2 senses of basket fern

Sense 1
basket fern, toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata -- (tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil)
       => sword fern -- (any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed)

Sense 2
basket fern, Drynaria rigidula -- (giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)