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• Ferns, lycopods, and scouring rushes are all pteridophytes.From the entry pteridophyte
• Superstition held that fern seed renders one invisible.From the entry fern seed
• Many ferns are epipetric, including the spleenworts.From the entry epipetric
• The dungeon fern has a passive attack that releases spores.From the entry passive attack
• I found out to my cost that the tree fern I brought back from New Zealand was frost-tender, and it didn't survive the winter.From the entry frost-tender
• 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
• Thankfully Wilson's filmy fern has survived in many sheltered and humid places, including these Borrowdale rainforests.2017, Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss, Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day, →ISBN. From the entry Wilson's filmy fern
• 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
• Amphibic or aquatic ferns are abundant in Equisetum, Blechnum and in Marsileales.2009, Wolfgang Frey, Syllabus of Plant Families – Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Part 3: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular…. From the entry amphibic
• The understory includes hapuʻu and various native small trees, shrubs and ferns.1999, “Affected Environment, Environmental Consequences, and Mitigation Measures”, in Saddle Road (State Route 200), Mamalahoa Highway…. From the entry hapuʻu
• Over the small ferns, the high and pale-green hapuʻu arch twenty-five and thirty feet.1997, James D. Houston, In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, San Francisco, Calif.: Mercury House, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry hapuʻu
• We like the way they live, in their penthouselike surroundings filled with fake ferns and goldfish.1988 June, Spy, page 27. From the entry surroundings
• The last fern cake, and you hid it, you deceitful girl!1978, Mary Burg Whitcomb, Tee-Bo in the Great Hort Hunt, page 68. From the entry fern cake
• They would bring potted plants and ferns and seeds for old-maids and periwinkles.1975, William Goyen, The Collected Stories of William Goyen, page 158. From the entry old maid
• The blaze was yet a fern fire, but it was what the smoke-eaters called a “hot job.”1947, James Stevens, Paul Bunyan’s Bears, Seattle: Frank McCaffrey Publishers, page 111. From the entry smoke-eater
• A huge vase of scarlet anthuria and poinsettias, arranged with ferns, stood in the center.1943, Alice Northrop Snow, The Story of Helen Gould, Daughter of Jay Gould, Great American, volume 1, New York, N.Y.; London; Edinburgh…. From the entry anthurium
• The calamites were sort of immense asparaguses and related to our modern ferns known as horse-tails (equisetum).1917, Royal Dixon, Franklyn Everett Fitch, The Human Side of Trees, page 91. From the entry asparaguses
• The only other known baridines associated with ferns are species of the New World genera Lamprobaris Champion and Lissobaris Champion (A.2022 March 16, “Pteridobaris maritima (Roelofs)”, in TreatmentBank. From the entry baridine
• If you have ever had a pond you will know Azolla, a.k.a. pondweed, duckweed fern or fairy moss.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76. From the entry pondweed
• "It's all tropical, with a lot of different ferns."2008 April 12, The Orlando Sentinel, Florida, page 3. From the entry Tarzany
• Christmas fern can be massed as groundcover, or a clump looks nice tucked into the base of a stump.2006, Lynn M. Steiner, Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry Christmas fern
• This ultramoist yet rocky drainage has been known for years as the richest fern paradise in the Pacific Northwest.2004, Art Kruckeberg, Karen Sykes, Ira Spring, Craig Romano, Best Wildflower Hikes Washington, page 109. From the entry ultramoist
• The commonest species is the hapu‘u, Cibotium, a majestic and graceful fern with all the elegance of a green fountain.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 36. From the entry hapu'u
• Deadfalls clog the base of this falls, and moss and ferns abound, along with odd-looking two-leaved wortlike plants I couldn't identify.2004, Scott E. Brown, Pennsylvania Waterfalls: A Guide for Hikers & Photographers. From the entry wortlike
• All three types of climbing organs here demonstrated for Late Palaeozoic seed ferns are also found in modern angiosperms.1998, Kerp with Hans and Michael Krings, “Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among Late Carboniferous seed…. From the entry scrambling
• This leads to the conclusion that several taxa of Late Palaeozoic seed ferns were well-adapted to climbing and scrambling growth habits.1998, Kerp with Hans and Michael Krings, “Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among Late Carboniferous seed…. From the entry scrambling
• My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries.1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind. From the entry fernery
• On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 39, in Earthly Powers, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 280. From the entry menhir
• Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.1952, G. Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy, published 1986, →ISBN, page 548. From the entry monotreme
• A fern frond, knocked off the bank upstream, came down turning like a little green dragon in the clear water.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19. From the entry frond
• He'll likely mistake you for a man fern.1920, Bernard Cronin, Timber Wolves. From the entry man fern
• McCoy was in a booth with a pot of tea and a fern cake in front of him, that day's Tribune open on the table.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 378. From the entry fern cake
• The bartender placed their pints on coasters advertising Smiles, a fern bar that used to be a few blocks up the street.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 161. From the entry fern bar
• Taiya Popo, a restaurant on Wulai’s main drag, serves traditional Atayal cuisine, much of it vegetable-based like pumpkin dumplings, rice-stuffed bamboo and stir-fried fern.2014 December 3, Adam H. Graham, “Taiwan, an Island of Green in Asia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on…. From the entry Wulai
• It may have been around this time that ‘wild’ plants such as karaka, cabbage tree and bracken fern began to be semi-cultivated.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 59. From the entry karaka
• Here a young man, perhaps sixteen, is sitting with his back to the rock among some ferns playing a guitar, dead pan.1995, William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan, Paterson. From the entry dead pan
• Behind the plaque a brass and jaunty Joyce re-juggles book, stick and cigarette, defiantly dandy, unparanoid at last beneath his canopy of ferns.1974, Samuel John Hazo, Quartered. From the entry unparanoid
• Above the spring the little statue of the god Myrddin, he of the winged spaces of the air, stared from between the ferns.1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 26. From the entry lip
• The non-u father will bolster his carnation—on his hired morning coat—with a sprig of fern, and perhaps even carry a pair of grey gloves.1968 August 21, “U and Non-U Today: 2. Actions”, in New Society: The Social Science Weekly, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 267, column 2. From the entry u

Meaning of fern

1. 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.
2. noun A light green color inspired by the color of ferns.

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How do you use fern in a sentence?

Fern is used as a noun. For example: “Ferns, lycopods, and scouring rushes are all pteridophytes.”

What is a short sentence with fern?

“Many ferns are epipetric, including the spleenworts.”

What does fern mean?

Fern means 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.