LEATHER FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leather fern mean? 

• LEATHER FERN (noun)
  The noun LEATHER FERN has 2 senses:

1. stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides

2. widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds

  Familiarity information: LEATHER FERN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEATHER FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acrostichum aureum; golden fern; leather fern

Hypernyms ("leather fern" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Holonyms ("leather fern" is a member of...):

Acrostichum; genus Acrostichum (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

leather fern; leatherleaf fern; Polystichum adiantiformis; Rumohra adiantiformis; ten-day fern

Hypernyms ("leather fern" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("leather fern" is a member of...):

genus Rumohra; Rumohra (leatherleaf ferns: in some classifications included in genus Polystichum)