Noun: potato fern pu'tey-tow furn
- Large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people
"Aboriginal peoples harvested potato ferns for food";
- Marattia salicina
- Small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes
"The potato fern's distinctive tubers were visible along its stems";
- Solanopteris bifrons
Derived forms: potato ferns
Type of: fern
Part of: genus Marattia, genus Solanopteris, Marattia, Solanopteris