fern
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fern/fɜːn/
▶noun (pl. same or ferns) a flowerless vascular plant which has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores released from the undersides of the fronds. [Class Filicopsida.]
– derivatives
fernery noun (pl. ferneries),
ferny adjective.
fernery noun (pl. ferneries),
ferny adjective.
– origin OE fearn, of W. Gmc origin.
'fern' also found in these Oxford entries:
achillea
- adder's tongue
- asparagus fern
- bracken
- brake
- brake
- bugbane
- chervil
- cicely
- cow parsley
- crozier
- cryptogam
- fool's parsley
- frond
- hart's tongue
- hemlock
- honey locust
- indusium
- jacaranda
- lady fern
- maidenhair
- maidenhair tree
- male fern
- mimosa
- moonwort
- nardoo
- pasque flower
- pillwort
- pinna
- polypody
- ponga
- pteridology
- pteridophyte
- pteridosperm
- royal fern
- seed fern
- shield fern
- silver fern
- sorus
- spleenwort
- staghorn fern
- stipe
- tree fern
- wall rue
