flowering fern : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flowering fern	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for flowering fern
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flowering fern n Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds Synonym(s): flowering fern, Helminthostachys zeylanica any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters Synonym(s): flowering fern, osmund
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. {Flowering fern}, a genus of showy ferns ({Osmunda}), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. {Flowering plants}, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from {flowerless plants}. {Flowering rush}, a European rushlike plant ({Butomus umbellatus}), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.