English noun: flowering fern |
1. | flowering fern (plant) Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds |
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| Synonyms | Helminthostachys zeylanica |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fern |
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| Member meronym | genus Helminthostachys, Helminthostachys |
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2. | flowering fern (plant) any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters |
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| Synonyms | osmund |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fern |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | cinnamon fern, ditch fern, fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, French bracken, interrupted fern, king fern, Osmunda cinnamonea, Osmunda clatonia, Osmunda regalis, royal fern, royal osmund |
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| Member meronym | genus Osmunda |
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