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Definition of Annual fern

1. Noun. Small short-lived fern of Central and South America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Annual Fern

Literary usage of Annual fern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"It is strictly an annual fern; and when the species is raised from seed, the plant appears to consist, for some weeks, of a single, undivided, ..."

2. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1884)
"A yellow Oxalis grows on the walls, with Cotyledon and Pellitory—white and yellow Stone-crop, and abundance of the annual Fern ..."

3. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"In the crevices of walls near the church of S. Antonio, on the south side of the island ; but the young plants (for it appears to be an annual fern) were ..."

4. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"The genus is limited to the singlo Australian s¡>erir« which is widely distributed 174.—An aquatic or semiaquatic annual fern. Fronds twice or 1. ..."

5. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Elliott Coues, Thomas Jefferson (1893)
"... they are very shy; and the annual fern, which is now abundant and dry, makes such a rustling as the hunters pass through it that they could not come ..."

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