NEPHROLEPIS PECTINATA

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

basket fern; Nephrolepis pectinata; toothed sword fern

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Hypernyms ("Nephrolepis pectinata" is a kind of...):

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

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