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]
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