flowering fern

1. 1.

   Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds

   SynonymsHelminthostachys zeylanica

   Broaderfern

   Part ofHelminthostachys
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsosmund

   Broaderfern

   Narrowerroyal ferninterrupted ferncinnamon fern

   Part ofgenus Osmunda

Questions about flowering fern

What does flowering fern mean?

flowering fern means "Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for flowering fern?

Close synonyms include Helminthostachys zeylanica, osmund. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flowering fern a common word?

flowering fern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.