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LEATHERLEAF FERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leatherleaf fern mean?
• LEATHERLEAF FERN (noun)
The noun LEATHERLEAF FERN has 1 sense:
1. widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds
Familiarity information: LEATHERLEAF FERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
leather fern; leatherleaf fern; Polystichum adiantiformis; Rumohra adiantiformis; ten-day fern
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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