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SWORD FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sword 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sword fern"):
Boston fern; Nephrolepis exaltata; Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis (a sword fern with arching or drooping pinnate fronds; a popular houseplant)
basket fern; Nephrolepis pectinata; toothed sword fern (tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil)
Holonyms ("sword fern" is a member of...):
genus Nephrolepis; Nephrolepis (small genus of tropical ferns; sometimes placed in Polypodiaceae)
