| Noun | 1. basket fern - tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and BrazilNephrolepis pectinata, toothed sword fernsword fern - any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed | | 2. basket fern - giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and AustraliaDrynaria rigidulafern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesDrynaria, genus Drynaria - large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia |