Usually means: Evergreen fern with sword-shaped fronds.
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  1. sword fern: Merriam-Webster
  2. sword fern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sword fern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sword fern: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sword fern: Vocabulary.com
  6. sword-fern: Wordnik
  7. sword fern: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. sword fern: Dictionary.com
  9. Sword fern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sword fern: Rhymezone
  11. sword fern: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sword fern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. sword fern: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. sword fern: Wiktionary

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  1. Sword Fern: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sword fern)

noun:  Any fern in the genus Nephrolepis, typically with long, straight-sided fronds shaped like a two-edged sword, and widely grown as houseplants.
noun:  Some ferns in the genus Polystichum which look like the typical Nephrolepis sword ferns.

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