basket fern

English Thesaurus

1. giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fern,
definition	:	any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	drynaria, genus drynaria,
definition	:	large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia (noun.plant)

2. tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	sword fern,
definition	:	any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed (noun.plant)