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Definition of Potato fern
1. Noun. Large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Marattia, Marattia
2. Noun. Small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Solanopteris, Solanopteris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potato Fern
Literary usage of Potato fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... called in Australia the Potato-Fern. See under Fern. Hot Wind, n. an Australian
meteorological phenomenon. See quotations, especially 1879, AR Wallace. ..."
2. The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Amongst Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and by Isabella Lucy Bird (1906)
"I saw for the first time, too, a Lygodium and the large, climbing potato-fern (Polypodium
spectrum), very like a yam in the distance, and the Vittaria ..."
3. "Alo'ha!": A Hawaiian Salutation by George Leonard Chaney (1880)
"The Polypodium spectrum, or, as it is familiarly called, the sweet-potato fern,
grew in these woods. Mr. Davis knew the precise trees in the forest belt ..."
4. The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and by Isabella Lucy Bird (1894)
"I saw for the first time, too, a Lygo- dium and the large, climbing
potato-fern {Polypodium spectrum), very like a yam in the distance, and the Vittaria ..."
5. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1853)
"... meal, potato, fern, &c. It has abo been obtained by alcoholic saturation iu
place of the old process of ler- mentation. ..."
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