Fern
21fern — [fə:n US fə:rn] n [: Old English; Origin: fearn] a type of plant with green leaves shaped like large feathers, but no flowers >ferny adj …
22fern — [ fɜrn ] noun count a plant with leaves shaped like feathers and no flowers …
23fern — [Aufbauwortschatz (Rating 1500 3200)] Auch: • (weit) entfernt • weit Bsp.: • Ihre schnellen Schiffe brachten die Wikinger in ferne Länder. • Indien ist sehr weit weg …
24fern — ► NOUN (pl. same or ferns) ▪ a flowerless plant which has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores released from the undersides of the fronds. DERIVATIVES fernery noun (pl. ferneries) ferny adjective. ORIGIN Old English …
25fern — [fʉrn] n. [ME < OE fearn < IE * porno , leaf, feather (> Sans parna, feather, leaf) < base * per , to transport, fly > FARE] any of a widespread division (Filicophyta) of nonflowering embryophytes having roots, stems, and fronds,… …
26fern|er|y — «FUR nuhr ee, FURN ree», noun, plural er|ies. 1. a place where ferns grow. 2. a container in which ferns are grown for ornament …
27fern|y — «FUR nee», adjective. 1. of ferns. 2. like ferns. 3. overgrown with ferns: »a ferny dell …
28fern — fernless, adj. fernlike, adj. /ferrn/, n. any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a… …
29Fern — /ferrn/, n. a female given name. * * * Any of about 10,000–12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores. Though ferns were once classified with the… …
30Fern — This article is about the group of pteridophyte plants. For other uses, see Fern (disambiguation). Ferns (Pteridophyta) Temporal range: Mid Devonian[1] Recent …