button fern
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button fern
n.
A New Zealand fern (Pellaea rotundifolia) cultivated as a houseplant for its arching or trailing leaves with round, dark green, buttonlike leaflets.
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Noun | 1. | button fern - fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Pellaea, Pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae |
2. | button fern - Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Tectaria, Tectaria - terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests |
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