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Flowering fern   /flˈaʊərɪŋ fərn/   Listen
Flowering fern

noun
1.
Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds.  Synonym: Helminthostachys zeylanica.
2.
Any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters.  Synonym: osmund.





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"Flowering fern" Quotes from Famous Books



... several miles to the SE in the figure of a small segment of a circle. The tops of its hills, though stony, produce abundance of tall timber, which, as it descends the slopes, diminishes in size, and thins off to a few scattered she oaks and gum trees, interspersed with small coppices of the beautiful flowering fern. ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins


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