POTATO FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potato fern mean? 

• POTATO FERN (noun)
  The noun POTATO FERN has 2 senses:

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

2. small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes

  Familiarity information: POTATO FERN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTATO FERN (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("potato fern" 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 ("potato fern" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

potato fern; Solanopteris bifrons

Hypernyms ("potato fern" 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 ("potato fern" is a member of...):

genus Solanopteris; Solanopteris (tropical American epiphytic ferns having rhizomes with tubers and roots as well as scales)