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n. Any of numerous flowerless, seedless vascular plants having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores.

n. 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.

ad. Long ago.

adj. Ancient; old. [Obs.] “Pilgrimages to … ferne halwes.” [saints].

n. 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.

n. One of a large group of vascular cryptogamous plants, constituting the natural order Filices.

Ancient; old; former; past; previous.

Distant; remote; far off.

Long ago; long before.

n. In Australia, Ophioderma pendula.

n. The royal fern, Osmunda regalis, which grows in low, wet situations and is thus associated popularly with snakes. See Osmunda.

n. In Australia, Grammitis australis, a small species with simple leaves.

n. Same as floating-fern. See Ceratopteris.

n. any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

"We have had only one fall of snow, and that a light one; but the fern is already lying on the ground, prostrate, as in spring."

fern owl    fern shaw   

pteridophyte    nonflowering plant   

sword-fern    elk-horn fern    prickly-fern    bog fern    snake-fern    chain fern    black fern    royal fern    maidenhair fern    filmy fern   

culcita dubia    crape fern    christella    diplazium pycnocarpon    grass fern    pteris cretica    schizaea pusilla    potato fern    pityrogramma chrysophylla    pteridium aquilinum   

male fern    ferny   

ancient   

Bern    Berne    Hearn    Herne    Kern    Laverne    Stern    Sterne    Verne    adjourn   

shrub    moss    weed    foliage    ivy    evergreen    pine    creeper    lily    heather