toothed sword fern

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   tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil

   Synonymsbasket fernNephrolepis pectinata

   Broadersword fern

Questions about toothed sword fern

What does toothed sword fern mean?

toothed sword fern means "tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil".

What is another word for toothed sword fern?

Close synonyms include basket fern, Nephrolepis pectinata. 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 toothed sword fern a common word?

toothed 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.