sword fern

1. 1.

   any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed

   Broaderfern

   NarrowerBoston fernbasket fern

   Part ofNephrolepis

Questions about sword fern

What does sword fern mean?

sword fern means "any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed".

Is sword fern a common word?

sword fern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.