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feather fern — noun : a Japanese herb (Astilbe japonica) with feathery compound leaves and paniculate white flowers * * * feather fern, an ornamental branching herb of Japan, belonging to the saxifrage family and bearing white flowers in erect panicles … Useful english dictionary
fern — [[t]fɜrn[/t]] n. pln a nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, having fronds and reproducing by spores • Etymology: bef. 900; ME ferne, OE fearn; c. MD væren, OHG farn fern, Skt parná feather fern′like , adj. fern′y, adj … From formal English to slang
fern — O.E. fearn, from P.Gmc. *farnan (Cf. O.S. farn, M.Du. vaern, Du. varen, O.H.G. farn, Ger. Farn), from PIE *porno , a root which has yielded words for feather, wing (Cf. Skt. parnam feather; Lith. papartis fern; Russ … Etymology dictionary
Fern — (f[ e]rn), n. [AS. fearn; akin to D. varen, G. farn, farnkraut; cf. Skr. par[.n]a wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or Lith. papartis fern.] (Bot.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the {Filices}, which have their fructification on the back of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fern owl — Fern Fern (f[ e]rn), n. [AS. fearn; akin to D. varen, G. farn, farnkraut; cf. Skr. par[.n]a wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or Lith. papartis fern.] (Bot.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the {Filices}, which have their fructification on the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fern shaw — Fern Fern (f[ e]rn), n. [AS. fearn; akin to D. varen, G. farn, farnkraut; cf. Skr. par[.n]a wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or Lith. papartis fern.] (Bot.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the {Filices}, which have their fructification on the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fern — [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,… … English World dictionary
fern — 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… … Universalium
fern — [OE] Fern is a fairly widespread Indo European word, represented among the other West Germanic languages by German farn and Dutch varen. It comes ultimately from Indo European *porno . This also produced Sanskrit parnám, which meant ‘feather’ as… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
fern — [OE] Fern is a fairly widespread Indo European word, represented among the other West Germanic languages by German farn and Dutch varen. It comes ultimately from Indo European *porno . This also produced Sanskrit parnám, which meant ‘feather’ as… … Word origins
fern — /fɜn / (say fern) noun any of the pteridophytes constituting the order Filicales, distinguished from other pteridophytes in having few leaves, large in proportion to the stems, and bearing sporangia on the undersurface or margin. {Middle English… …
