MARATTIA SALICINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marattia salicina mean? 

• MARATTIA SALICINA (noun)
  The noun MARATTIA SALICINA has 1 sense:

1. large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people

  Familiarity information: MARATTIA SALICINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARATTIA SALICINA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Marattia salicina; potato fern

Hypernyms ("Marattia salicina" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("Marattia salicina" is a member of...):

genus Marattia; Marattia (type genus of the Marattiaceae: ferns having the sporangia fused together in two rows)