basket fern

Questions about basket fern

What does basket fern mean?

basket fern means "tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for basket fern?

Close synonyms include toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, Drynaria rigidula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basket fern a common word?

basket fern is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.