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Noun: potato fern  pu'tey-tow furn
  1. Large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people
    - Marattia salicina
     
  2. Small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes
    - Solanopteris bifrons

Derived forms: potato ferns

Type of: fern

Part of: genus Marattia, genus Solanopteris, Marattia, Solanopteris