Akademik

1. tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil

2. giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia

1. : male fern

2. : a tropical American sword fern (Nephrolepis pectinata) often cultivated for its finely divided grayish green foliage

a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.

[1940-45]