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Definition of Ferns
1. fern [n] - See also: fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferns
Literary usage of Ferns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1857)
"An Analysis of the British ferns and their Allies, by GW Francis, FLS 5th edition.
With Engravings. Revised and enlarged by Arthur Henfrey, FRS, ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"With us for the most part ferns have short underground stems bearing a ...
In the tropics and sub-tropical regions, on the other hand, Tree ferns are common ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Coarse ferns with sporangia on the under surface of the leaf, ... FILMY ferns.
Sporangia attached to a thread-like receptacle arising in a cup at the end of ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The true ferns are often divided into two great groups on the basis of the origin
of their sporangia. In one case the sporangium is purely an external ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"THE HOME OF THE ferns. BT T. JOHNSTON EVANS. IN the New World, as well as in the
Old, there is many a charming spot, far away in the wild woodland or within ..."
6. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"The total known number of existing species of ferns is about 1500. ... 39.
t ferns are distinguished from all other vegetables by the peculiar division and ..."
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