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LEATHER FERN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds

Synonyms:

leather fern; leatherleaf fern; Polystichum adiantiformis; Rumohra adiantiformis; ten-day fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("leather fern" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("leather fern" is a member of...):

genus Rumohra; Rumohra (leatherleaf ferns: in some classifications included in genus Polystichum)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Acrostichum aureum; golden fern; leather fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("leather fern" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Holonyms ("leather fern" is a member of...):

Acrostichum; genus Acrostichum (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)

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