flowering_fern has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds

Related terms

fern Helminthostachys

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[ noun ] (botany) any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters

Synonyms

osmund

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