leather fern

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgolden fernAcrostichum aureum

   Broaderfern

   Part ofAcrostichum

   United States

2. 2.

   widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds

   Synonymsleatherleaf fernten-day fernRumohra adiantiformisPolystichum adiantiformis

   Broaderfern

   Part ofRumohra

Questions about leather fern

What does leather fern mean?

leather fern means "stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for leather fern?

Close synonyms include golden fern, Acrostichum aureum, leatherleaf fern, ten-day fern, Rumohra adiantiformis. 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 leather fern a common word?

leather fern is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.