flowering : Idioms & Phrases

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Flowering fern

  • noun Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds
    Helminthostachys zeylanica.
  • noun any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters
    osmund.
WordNet
  • a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places.
Webster 1913

Flowering plants

  • noun plants having seeds in a closed ovary
    flowering plant; angiosperm.
WordNet
  • plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; distinguished from flowerless plants.
Webster 1913

Flowering rush

  • a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
Webster 1913