acrostichum aureum

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgolden fernleather fern

   Broaderfern

   Part ofAcrostichum

   United States

Questions about acrostichum aureum

What does acrostichum aureum mean?

acrostichum aureum means "stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides".

What is another word for acrostichum aureum?

Close synonyms include golden fern, leather fern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acrostichum aureum a common word?

acrostichum aureum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.