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    LEATHERLEAF FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid frondsplay

    Synonyms:

    leather fern; leatherleaf fern; Polystichum adiantiformis; Rumohra adiantiformis; ten-day fern

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    Nouns denoting plants

    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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