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fern::noun | Spocien Dictionary

fern
noun
/fɜrn/
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
Type Words
Type of pteridophyte, nonflowering plant
Has types adder's tongue fern, aglaomorpha meyeniana, anemia adiantifolia, annual fern, anogramma leptophylla, aquatic fern, asplenium ceterach, asplenium nidus, asplenium nigripes, asplenium scolopendrium, athyrium filix-femina, athyrium pycnocarpon, athyrium thelypteroides, bamboo fern, basket fern, bead fern, bear's-paw fern, beech fern, bird's nest fern, bladder fern, boulder fern, bracken, brake, bristle fern, buckler fern, button fern, canker brake, ceterach officinarum, chain fern, cheilanthes gracillima, christella, christmas fern, cliff-brake, cliff brake, climbing bird's nest fern, climbing fern, coniogramme japonica, crape fern, crepe fern, culcita dubia, curly grass, curly grass fern, cyclophorus lingua, cyrtomium aculeatum, dagger fern, davallia, dennstaedtia punctilobula, deparia acrostichoides, diplazium pycnocarpon, diplopterygium longissimum, doodia, doryopteris pedata, drynaria rigidula, dryopteris noveboracensis, dryopteris oreopteris, dryopteris thelypteris, evergreen wood fern, false bracken, fan fern, felt fern, woodsia, adder's tongue, water fern, wood-fern, wood fern, woodfern, acrostichum aureum, fiddlehead, film fern, filmy fern, flowering fern, giant scrambling fern, glade fern, gleichenia flabellata, gold fern, golden fern, golden polypody, grape fern, grass fern, gymnocarpium dryopteris, gymnocarpium robertianum, hand fern, hard fern, hart's-tongue, hart's-tongue fern, hay-scented, hay-scented fern, helminthostachys zeylanica, holly fern, indian button fern, jersey fern, king fern, lace fern, lady fern, leather fern, leatherleaf fern, lecanopteris, leptopteris superba, limestone fern, lip fern, lipfern, maidenhair, maidenhair fern, marattia salicina, marsh fern, massachusetts fern, matteuccia struthiopteris, microgramma-piloselloides, microsorium punctatum, mohria caffrorum, mountain fern, narrow-leaved spleenwort, new york fern, northern oak fern, oak fern, oleander fern, oleandra mollis, oleandra neriiformis, olfersia cervina, onoclea sensibilis, onoclea struthiopteris, oreopteris limbosperma, osmund, ostrich fern, parathelypteris novae-boracensis, parathelypteris simulata, pasture brake, pecopteris, pellaea rotundifolia, phlebodium aureum, phyllitis scolopendrium, pine fern, pityrogramma argentea, pityrogramma calomelanos, pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava, pityrogramma chrysophylla, polybotria cervina, polybotrya cervina, polypodium aureum, polypody, polystichum acrostichoides, polystichum aculeatum, polystichum adiantiformis, potato fern, prince-of-wales feather, prince-of-wales fern, prince-of-wales plume, pteretis struthiopteris, pteridium aquilinum, pteridium esculentum, pteris cretica, pteris multifida, pteris serrulata, pyrrosia lingua, rabbit's-foot fern, rasp fern, ribbon fern, rock brake, rumohra adiantiformis, scale fern, scaly fern, scented fern, schaffneria nigripes, schizaea pusilla, scolopendrium, scolopendrium nigripes, sensitive fern, serpent fern, shield fern, shuttlecock fern, silver fern, silvery spleenwort, snake polypody, solanopteris bifrons, spider brake, spider fern, spleenwort, staghorn fern, sticherus flabellatus, strap fern, sword fern, tectaria cicutaria, tectaria macrodonta, ten-day fern, thelypteris dryopteris, thelypteris palustris, thelypteris simulata, todea barbara, todea superba, tongue fern, tree fern, umbrella fern, vittaria lineata
Derivation ferny

Examples of fern

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A hollowed-out tree trunk holding a living fern sat in the corner of the shower.
From the denverpost.com
If lilac is one of the fragrances of spring, sweet fern must be one of summer's.
From the timesunion.com
Australian tree fern This dramatic tree fern has enormous, divided, lacy fronds.
From the chron.com
She just ducked under a large fern and waited to see which suitor would prevail.
From the thenewstribune.com
Fern-cutting is a year-round business that comes with hazards for every season.
From the news-journalonline.com
For example, the royal fern likes damp shade, the interrupted fern, a dryer spot.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Fern Beetle-Moorcroft scored five points in overtime and finished with 17 points.
From the timesunion.com
It is the flat shield fronds that cling to the surface on which the fern grows.
From the chron.com
Today, the top of the fern is at about the 8-foot level and gives an exotic look.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
  • (ferned) abounding in or covered with ferns; "the ferny undergrowth"
  • A fern is a member of a group of about 10,560 known extant species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ) of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular (i.e. having water-conducting vessels)...
  • Fearn is the Irish name of the third letter of the Ogham alphabet, , meaning "alder-tree". In Old Irish, the letter name was Fern, which is related to Welsh gwern(en). Its Primitive Irish root was *'''' and its phonetic value then was [w]. Its Old Irish and modern phonetic value is [f].
  • The Fern (Horisme tersata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species can be found in the Palearctic ecozone.
  • Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta (formerly known by some as Filicophyta) that lacks seeds and reproduces by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations
  • (Ferning) A pattern characteristic of dried cervical mucus viewed on a slide. When the fern pattern appears, the mucus has been thinned and prepared by estrogen for the passage of sperm. If it does not fern, the mucus will be hostile to the passage of the sperm.
  • (Ferning) occurs when you are fertile, due to salt crystals in your saliva. The term ferning describes what these salt crystals look like under a microscope after your saliva dries. You need a 50x lens to see these patterns. You can get a small microscope designed just for this.
  • Ferning is the pattern made by saliva or cervical mucus when dried on a slide and examined under a microscope. Low powered microscopes can pick up this ferning effect. ...
LeafTensor is a decentralized system.