Noun has 2 senses

• leather fern(n = noun.plant) acrostichum aureum, golden fern - stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides;




• leather fern(n = noun.plant) leatherleaf fern, polystichum adiantiformis, rumohra adiantiformis, ten-day fern - widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds;