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Osmund

noun

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

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"Osmund" Quotes from Famous Books

... some five or six hours, or, rather converging upon a common centre so far removed from him, was one Osmund Manvers, a young English gentleman of easy fortune, independent habits and analytical disposition; also riding, also singing to himself, equally early afoot, but in very different circumstances. He bestrode a horse tolerably sound, had a haversack before him reasonably stored. He had ...

— The Spanish Jade • Maurice Hewlett

Words linked to "Osmund" : French bracken, fiddlehead fern, flowering fern, cinnamon fern, interrupted fern, ditch fern, fern, Osmunda clatonia, fiddlehead, king fern, royal osmund, royal fern