Noun has 2 senses

• flowering fern(n = noun.plant) helminthostachys zeylanica - Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds;



• flowering fern(n = noun.plant) osmund - any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters;