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leather fern

DEFINITIONS OF: leather fern

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

Synonyms:
Acrostichum aureum, golden fern
Type of:
fern
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

n widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds

Synonyms:
Polystichum adiantiformis, Rumohra adiantiformis, leatherleaf fern, ten-day fern
Type of:
fern
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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