Look up: Fern

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   Fern
   Ferns compris an order of several families of perennial, .flowerless plants Ttere are more than ten thousand species widely distributed throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world. Ferns are classified principally by the structure and arrangement of themosslike growths, to the massive Tree Ferns with stout trunks 80 or more feet in height....
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   Fern
   Ferns are non-flowering plants that were plentiful during the Mesozoic Era and usually live in warm, moist areas. Ferns have fronds divided into leaflets.
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   Fern
   Fern is a township in Hubbard County Minnesota, USA Fern is a town in Florence County Wisconsin, USA
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   fern
   [n] - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward
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   Fern
   Plant that has many small waterproof leaves. Reproduces using spores.
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   Fern
   Green, non-flowering vascular plants, reproducing by vegetative or fertilized spores.
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   Fern
   a type of plant with large, divided leaves. First found in the Devonian. During the Palaeozoic era tree-ferns, some up to several metres in height, dominated the forest vegetation. Today ferns grow mostly as smaller plants and tree ferns are rare
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   Fern
   Fern adverb Long ago. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
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   Fern
   Fern adjective [ Anglo-Saxon fyrn .] Ancient; old. [ Obsolete] 'Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes.' [ saints]. Chaucer.
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    Fern
    Fern (fẽrn) noun [ Anglo-Saxon fearn ; akin to Dutch varen , German farn , farn kraut; confer Sanskrit parn.a wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or Lithuanian papartis fern.] (Botany) 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 ...
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    fern
    <botany> 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. ... The plants are asexual, and bear clustered sporangia, containing minute spores, which ...
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    fern
    noun any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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    Fern
    A `fern` is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division `Pteridophyta`, also known as `Filicophyta`. The group is also referred to as `polypodiophyta`, or `polypodiopsida` when treated as a subdivision of tracheophyta (vascular plants). The study of ferns and other pteridophytes is called `pteridology`, and one who studies ferns and other pteridophytes is called a `pteridologist`. The term `pteridophy...
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    FERN
    `FERN, the Forests and the European Union Resource Network`, is an international non-governmental organization created in 1995 to keep track of the EU`s involvement in forests and to co-ordinate NGO activities at the European level. Through its work, FERN aims to increase the political and economic opportunities for people to create a more balanced society in which human rights are fully respected and environmental and social values are fully int...
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    Fern
    • (adv.) Long ago. • (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. • (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] `Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes...
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    fern
    any of several nonflowering vascular plants that possess true roots, stems, and complex leaves and that reproduce by spores. They belong to the ... [10 related articles]
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    Fern
    Fern is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Fern Plant` Where is it used? The name Fern is mainly used In English.It is an abbreviated form of Fernanda, used In Spanish and In Portuguese.How do they say it elsewhere? Ferne ( In English (Modern) )See also In English, German, French and In Czech: Ferdinand (M) From Old English. Alternat
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    Fern
    A group of about 11,000 species of vascular seedless plants that belong to the division Pterophyta. About 75 percent of the various species of ferns are found in the tropics. Some ferns grow on the branches of trees as epiphytes.
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    fern
    A nonflowering plant of the class Filicineae having creeping or erect rhizomes and large conspicuous leaves. Spores are produced on the underside of the leaf within sporangia and germinate to form the gametophyte or sexual stage of the life cycle. Ferns are widely distributed throughout the world, b...
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    fern
    fern, any plant of the division Polypodiophyta. Fern species, numbering several thousand, are found throughout the world but are especially abundant in tropical rain forests. The ferns and their relatives (e.g., the club moss and horsetail) are the most primitive plants to have developed a true vasc...
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