INDIAN BUTTON FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian button fern mean? 

• INDIAN BUTTON FERN (noun)
  The noun INDIAN BUTTON FERN has 1 sense:

1. fern of tropical Asia having round buttonlike bulbils

  Familiarity information: INDIAN BUTTON FERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN BUTTON FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fern of tropical Asia having round buttonlike bulbils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Indian button fern; Tectaria macrodonta

Hypernyms ("Indian button 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 ("Indian button fern" is a member of...):

genus Tectaria; Tectaria (terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests)