Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leather_fern

2 senses of leather fern

Sense 1
golden fern, leather fern, Acrostichum aureum -- (stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 2
leather fern, leatherleaf fern, ten-day fern, Rumohra adiantiformis, Polystichum adiantiformis -- (widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)