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Noun: basket fern  bãs-kit furn
  1. Tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil
    - toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata
     
  2. Giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia
    - Drynaria rigidula

Derived forms: basket ferns

Type of: fern, sword fern

Part of: Drynaria, genus Drynaria

Encyclopedia: Basket fern