basket fern

Noun	1.	basket fern - tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided grayish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil Nephrolepis pectinata, toothed sword fern sword fern - any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed
	2.	basket fern - giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia Drynaria rigidula fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores Drynaria, genus Drynaria - large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia

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