potato fern

Questions about potato fern

What does potato fern mean?

potato fern means "large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for potato fern?

Close synonyms include Marattia salicina, Solanopteris bifrons. 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 potato fern a common word?

potato 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.