Term: button fern: Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: spring squill: European scilla with small blue or purple flowers
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: building permit: a document authorizing the holder to construct a building of a particular kind on a particular lot
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: colinus: New World quail: the bobwhites
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: record: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: primary sex characteristic: the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction)
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: omomyid: extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: mayetiola: a genus of Cecidomyidae
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: engelmann spruce: tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown; wood used for rough lumber and boxes
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: chorus: a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: tanker: a soldier who drives a tank