Found 2 items, similar to Flowering fern.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: flowering fern flowering fern n 1: Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds [syn: Helminthostachys zeylanica] 2: any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters [syn: osmund]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Flowering fern 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]