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FERN
fern
(noun) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Fern
A female given name from the fern plant.
Anagrams
• fren, fren', nerf
Etymology
Noun
fern (plural ferns)
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
Synonyms
• (Pteridophyta): Filicophyta (archaic)
Anagrams
• fren, fren', nerf
Source: Wiktionary
Fern, adv.
Definition: Long ago. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fern, a. Etym: [AS. fyrn.]
Definition: Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints]. Chaucer.
Fern, n. Etym: [AS. fearn; akin to D. varen, G. farn, farnkraut; cf. Skr. parna wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or Lith. papartis fern.] (Bot.)
Definition: An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
Note: The plants are asexual, and bear clustered sporangia, containing minute spores, which germinate and form prothalli, on which are borne the true organs of reproduction. The brake or bracken, the maidenhair, and the polypody are all well known ferns. Christmas fern. See under Christmas.
– Climbing fern (Bot.), a delicate North American fern (Lygodium palmatum), which climbs several feet high over bushes, etc., and is much sought for purposes of decoration.
РFern owl. (Zo̦l.) (a) The European goatsucker. (b) The short- eared owl. [Prov. Eng.] -- Fern shaw, a fern thicket. [Eng.] R. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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