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    FLOWERING FERN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clustersplay

    Synonyms:

    flowering fern; osmund

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("flowering 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)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flowering fern"):

    ditch fern; French bracken; king fern; Osmunda regalis; royal fern; royal osmund (large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds)

    interrupted fern; Osmunda clatonia (North American fern having tall erect pinnate fronds and a few sporogenous pinnae at or near the center of the fertile fronds)

    cinnamon fern; fiddlehead; fiddlehead fern; Osmunda cinnamonea (New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible)

    Holonyms ("flowering fern" is a member of...):

    genus Osmunda (type genus of the Osmundaceae)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile frondsplay

    Synonyms:

    flowering fern; Helminthostachys zeylanica

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("flowering 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 ("flowering fern" is a member of...):

    genus Helminthostachys; Helminthostachys (one species: terrestrial fern of southeastern Asia and Australia)

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