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

2 senses of potato fern

Sense 1
potato fern, Marattia salicina -- (large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 2
potato fern, Solanopteris bifrons -- (small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)