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Definition of Royal fern
1. Noun. Large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds.
Generic synonyms: Flowering Fern, Osmund
Lexicographical Neighbors of Royal Fern
Literary usage of Royal fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"royal fern FAMILY. Large ferns with stout often erect rootstocks, 1-2 pinnate
leaves coiled in ... ROYALFERN ..."
2. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Ostrich Fern, Matteuccia Struthiopteris. royal fern, Osmunda regalis. Four hardy
ferns suitable for damp places: Polypody, Polypodium vulgare. ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1892)
"royal fern ( Osmunda ), the most striking of British feme ; it grows in damp
places, and used to Boyal Fern ..."
4. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1893)
"... in 1887, got by Trappist, her dam, Lobelia, by Cathedral, out of Essence, by
St Albans. 1891 bo by royal fern - - - I м т n nr„- 1892 br. f. by ..."
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