leather fern Meaning, Definition & Usage
-
noun stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides
Acrostichum aureum; golden fern.
-
noun widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds
leatherleaf fern; Rumohra adiantiformis; ten-day fern; Polystichum adiantiformis.