osmund

Other forms of osmund

plural

osmunds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about osmund

What does osmund mean?

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

How many syllables are in osmund?

osmund has 2 syllables: o-smund. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɑsmənd/.

What is another word for osmund?

Close synonyms include flowering fern. 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 osmund a common word?

osmund 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.