button fern

button fern
noun
1. fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets
Hypernyms: ↑fern
Member Holonyms: ↑Pellaea, ↑genus Pellaea
2. Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils
Syn: ↑Tectaria cicutaria
Hypernyms: ↑fern
Member Holonyms: ↑Tectaria, ↑genus Tectaria

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