OSMUND • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Osmund

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˈɑsmənd/ Listen

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.

See images of 'Osmund'

Etymology of 'Osmund'

Related searches:

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Osmund" Quotes from Famous Books

... sounded. The gay cavalcade rode on, toward Quentavic. And as they went young Osmund Heleigh (Lord Brudenel's son) asked for the gallant King of Navarre, "But who, sire, was that time-battered gray vagabond, with the tarnished silver stallion upon his shield and the mud-colored cripple at his side, that our Queens ...

— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell

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