leather fern   (TTS Sound)

The noun leather fern has 2 senses

• golden fern, leather fern, Acrostichum aureum -- (stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides)


• leather fern, leatherleaf fern, ten-day fern, Rumohra adiantiformis, Polystichum adiantiformis -- (widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds)