LEATHERLEAF FERN

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Meaning:

Widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("leatherleaf 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 ("leatherleaf fern" is a member of...):

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

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