Noun: basket fern bãs-kit furn
- Tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil
"Basket ferns cascade beautifully from hanging planters";
- toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata
- Giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia
"The massive basket fern created a natural hanging garden";
- Drynaria rigidula
Derived forms: basket ferns
Type of: fern, sword fern
Part of: Drynaria, genus Drynaria
Encyclopedia: Basket fern