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BUTTON FERN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils

Synonyms:

button fern; Tectaria cicutaria

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("button fern" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("button fern" is a member of...):

genus Tectaria; Tectaria (terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets

Synonyms:

button fern; Pellaea rotundifolia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("button fern" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("button fern" is a member of...):

genus Pellaea; Pellaea (genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

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