NOUN | plant | 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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Meaning | Any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed. | |
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Member of | Nephrolepis, genus Nephrolepis | small genus of tropical ferns |
Narrower | Boston fern, Nephrolepis exaltata, Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis | A sword fern with arching or drooping pinnate fronds |
basket fern, toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata | Tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage | |
Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
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