Plural of fern
regular plural
The plural of fern is ferns.
Forms of fern
| Singular | fern /fɜːn/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | ferns |
| Countable | countable |
Ferns in a sentence
- Ferns, lycopods, and scouring rushes are all pteridophytes.From the entry pteridophyte
- Many ferns are epipetric, including the spleenworts.From the entry epipetric
- A movement in the umbrageous undergrowth betrays the presence of something leaping from the ferns.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 52. From the entry umbrageous
- Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm.2015 October 29, Dave Taft, “The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success”, in The New York Times. From the entry gymnosperm
- Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.2013, Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book, Revised. From the entry curio
Meaning of fern
- noun 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.
- noun A light green color inspired by the color of ferns.
Questions about the plural of fern
- What is the plural of fern?
- The plural of fern is ferns.
- Is fern countable?
- Fern is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fern (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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