ALL meanings of fern
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F f - noun fern A flowerless plant that has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores released from the undersides of the fronds. Ferns have a vascular system for the transport of water and nutrients. 1
- noun fern plant with fronds 1
- noun fern a female given name. 1
- noun fern 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. 0
- variable noun fern A fern is a plant that has long stems with feathery leaves and no flowers. There are many types of fern. 0
- noun fern any tracheophyte plant of the phylum Filicinophyta, having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores formed in structures (sori) on the fronds 0
- noun fern any of certain similar but unrelated plants, such as the sweet fern 0
- noun fern any of a widespread division (Filicophyta) of nonflowering embryophytes having roots, stems, and fronds, and reproducing by spores instead of by seeds 0