WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
basket fern n 1: tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil [syn: basket fern, toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata] 2: giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia [syn: basket fern, Drynaria rigidula]