Noun flowering fern has 2 senses
  1. flowering fern, Helminthostachys zeylanica - Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds
    --1 is a kind of fern
    --1 is a member of Helminthostachys, genus Helminthostachys
  2. flowering fern, osmund - any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters
    --2 is a kind of fern
    --2 is a member of genus Osmunda
    --2 has particulars:
     royal fern, royal osmund, king fern, ditch fern, French bracken, Osmunda regalis; interrupted fern, Osmunda clatonia; cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea
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