osmunda clatonia

1. 1.

   North American fern having tall erect pinnate fronds and a few sporogenous pinnae at or near the center of the fertile fronds

   Synonymsinterrupted fern

   Broaderflowering fern

Questions about osmunda clatonia

What does osmunda clatonia mean?

osmunda clatonia means "North American fern having tall erect pinnate fronds and a few sporogenous pinnae at or near the center of the fertile fronds".

What is another word for osmunda clatonia?

Close synonyms include interrupted 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 osmunda clatonia a common word?

osmunda clatonia 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.