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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fern of the genus Osmunda. Also called water-fern, St. Christopher's herb, and herb-christopher.
- noun A bloom of iron produced in an osmund furnace. See
furnace .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the
osmund royal , orroyal fern (Osmunda regalis ), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters
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