osmund (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *osmund*:
NOUN	plant	osmund, flowering fern	any fern of the genus Osmunda

osmund > pronunciation
Sounds	aa'smahnd
Rhymes	abandoned ... Zealand: 132 rhymes with ahnd...

English > *osmund*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters.
Synonym	flowering fern
Member of	genus Osmunda	type genus of the Osmundaceae
Narrower	cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea	New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds
	interrupted fern, Osmunda clatonia	North American fern having tall erect pinnate fronds and a few sporogenous pinnae at or near the center of the fertile fronds
	royal fern, royal osmund, king fern, ditch fern, French bracken, Osmunda regalis	large deeply rooted fern of worldwide / worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds
Broader	fern	Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward

HyperDic: osmund