leather fern
n 1: stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America)
having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering
the undersides [syn: {golden fern}, {leather fern},
{Acrostichum aureum}]
2: widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere
having leathery pinnatifid fronds [syn: {leather fern},
{leatherleaf fern}, {ten-day fern}, {Rumohra adiantiformis},
{Polystichum adiantiformis}]