Flowering fern and Fern

Flowering fern noun - Any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters.

Fern and flowering fern are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fern" instead a noun phrase "Flowering fern".

Fern noun - Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores.

Flowering fern and fern are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Flowering fern" with "Fern", this terms are similar.

Nearby Words: ferny, fernery, Ferne