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Noun: button fern
  1. Fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets
    - Pellaea rotundifolia
     
  2. Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils
    - Tectaria cicutaria

Derived forms: button ferns

Type of: fern

Part of: genus Pellaea, genus Tectaria, Pellaea, Tectaria

Encyclopedia: Button fern