leather fern

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leather fern - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  leather fern
      n 1: stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America)
           having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering
           the undersides [syn: golden fern, leather fern,
           Acrostichum aureum]
      2: widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere
         having leathery pinnatifid fronds [syn: leather fern,
         leatherleaf fern, ten-day fern, Rumohra adiantiformis,
         Polystichum adiantiformis]