English noun: leather fern |
1. | leather fern (plant) stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides |
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| Synonyms | Acrostichum aureum, golden fern |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fern |
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| Member meronym | Acrostichum, genus Acrostichum |
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| Domain region | America, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA |
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2. | leather fern (plant) widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds |
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| Synonyms | leatherleaf fern, Polystichum adiantiformis, Rumohra adiantiformis, ten-day fern |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fern |
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| Member meronym | genus Rumohra, Rumohra |
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