leather fern

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Noun	1.	leather fern - stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides Acrostichum aureum, golden fern U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - 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 fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores Acrostichum, genus Acrostichum - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
	2.	leather fern - widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds leatherleaf fern, Polystichum adiantiformis, Rumohra adiantiformis, ten-day fern fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Rumohra, Rumohra - leatherleaf ferns: in some classifications included in genus Polystichum

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